Question

A lab instructor asked her class of 30 college seniors how many beers or mixed drinks they had last Saturday night that marked the beginning of the Spring Break. The data are presented below.

Female	Male
1	4
0	3
2	3
3	5
0	8
0	0
0	3
1	4
2	0
2	5
3	5
6	0
4	3
0	4
0	4

Using SPSS, perform an independent t-test to test whether there was a significant gender difference in alcohol consumption in last Saturday's party.

I am also confused as to how to put this into SPSS to get the answer.

Answer 1

Data should be entered as shown below,To do independent t-test in SPSS

Analyse > Compare means > Independent sample t-test. Then a dailog box will be opened as shown below

In dialog box, given Test variable as data and group variable is gender and also define groups as female and male as shown below

Then click on OK to get following output

Since t-significant values are less than level of significance, we can conclude that There was a significant gender difference in alcohol consumption