In: Statistics and Probability
An educational psychologist is interested in knowing whether the experience of attending preschool is related to subsequent sociability. She identifies two groups of first graders: those who had attended preschool and those who had not. Then each child is assigned a sociability score on the basis of observations made in the classroom and on the playground. Perform the 4 steps of hypothesis testing if using alpha is set at .05 for a two-tailed test.
The following sociability results are obtained:
Attended preschool Did not attend preschool
n1 = 12 n2 = 16
ΣX1 = 204 ΣX2 = 248
SS1 = 192 SS2 = 154