Suppose You Tested Two Age Groups on the Number of Details

question 30

Short Answer

Suppose you tested two age groups on the number of details they could recall from a paragraph.The mean for the older group is 16, and the mean for the younger group is 14.Further suppose you fail to reject the null hypothesis for this independent-samples t-test.What best accounts for the difference between these sample means?

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