Question

A researcher is interested in studying if drinking coffee makes people more or less impulsive (he doesn’t know which). He collects two samples of subjects (100 subjects each) from the same population, one that drinks coffee (group 1) and one that does not (group 2). He measures each on an impulsivity questionnaire, that ranges from 0 (not impulsive) to 100 (very impulsive). He finds that coffee drinkers have an impulsivity of 75, whereas non-coffee drinkers have an impulsivity of 67. He also calculates a standard error of the differences between groups (SEM1-M2) of 4.08.

Calculate the test statistic (t-score) for this test (Two Independent Samples t-Test).

Answer 1