The Question Below Refers to the Following Data

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Essay

The question below refers to the following data:
A social researcher wants to test the hypothesis that college students who drink alcohol while text messaging create a different number of keystrokes than those who do not drink while they text. The social researcher studies 50 drinking texters and 50 non-drinking texters. The average number of keystrokes for the drinking texters was 142 with a standard deviation of 7.45. The average number of keystrokes for the non-drinking texters
was 134 with a standard deviation of 6.81.
Are your results significant, and if so, at what level?

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Definitions:

Macrosystem Level

Pertains to the broadest context in ecological systems theory, encompassing societal norms, economic systems, and cultural values that influence an individual's development.

Mesosystem Level

A term from ecological systems theory describing interactions between different microsystems or immediate environments, like home and school.

Microsystem Level

The closest layer of environment in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, consisting of settings where an individual directly interacts, like family or school.

Internal

Pertaining to or existing within an entity, such as an organization, individual, or system, often as opposed to external factors or influences.