In: Statistics and Probability
a. Determining whether children remember more details from a surprising event than college students.
There are two different samples as children and college students
Since these are independent samples, we need to use independent samples t-test.
b. Determining whether left-handed people show higher vocabulary scores than right-handed people.
These are also different groups and so we use independent samples t-test.
c. Determining whether rats show differences in their spatial navigation abilities before and after consuming a high fat meal.
Here data are collected on same subjects ( same rats) before the consuming and after consuming a high fat meal.
So this is a pair data (dependent data set) , so we use dependent sample t test.
d. Determining whether a group of people has faster running speeds after drinking 1 cup of green tea than after drinking 4 cups of green tea.
Here data are collected on same groups of people before and after the different type of treatments on them
So this is a pair data (dependent data set) , so we use dependent sample t test.