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A Counseling Psychologist Developing a Technique to Reduce Procrastination Has

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A counseling psychologist developing a technique to reduce procrastination has students time their procrastination for a week and uses this as a pretest measure of procrastination. Students then attend a workshop in which they are instructed to do a specific warm-up exercise for studying by focusing on a pleasant activity. Students again time their procrastination for a week, and the time from this second week is the posttest measure.
-If the psychologist finds that the sum of squared deviations from the mean of the difference scores of the sample is 135,the estimated population variance would be

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