ENERGIZER

Lie to me
The students have to tell 3 facts about
their life. Something that happened to
them. Two of them should be true, and
one should be a lie. The other students
have to find out which one is the lie.
Independent t-test
 Independent t-test

The independent t-test, also called the two sample t-

test, independent-samples t-test or student's t-test, is an
inferential statistical test that determines whether there is
a statistically significant difference between the means in
two unrelated groups.
 Independent t-test
for two samples
Null and alternative hypotheses for the independent t-test
The null hypothesis for the independent t-test is that the population
means from the two unrelated groups are equal:
H0: u1 = u2
In most cases, we are looking to see if we can show that we can reject
the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis, which is
that the population means are not equal:
HA: u1 ≠ u2
• Example:
A NEW TEACHING METHOD IS DEVELOPED THAT
IS BELIEVED TO BE BETTER THAN THE CURRENT
METHOD

• Alternative Hypothesis:
The new teaching method is better.

• Null Hypothesis:
The new method is no better than the old method
 T Test for Independent Samples Solution
 
T Test for Independent Samples Solution

• Twenty participants were given a list of 20 words to process. The 20

participants were randomly assigned to one of two treatment
conditions. Half were instructed to count the number of vowels in
each word (shallow processing). Half were instructed to judge
whether the object  described by each word would be useful if one
were stranded on a desert island (deep processing). After a brief
distractor task, all subjects were given a surprise free recall task.
The number of words correctly recalled was recorded for each
subject. Here are the data:
The above problem involves an experiment with two treatment
conditions. The goal of your test is to see if there is significant mean
difference between the two treatment groups.