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Louis Is Looking for Data to Address His Research Question

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Louis is looking for data to address his research question, which asks whether athletes are more organized than non-athletes. What types of behavioral trace data could he use in order to investigate his hypothesis?


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Lower Tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test where the critical area of a distribution is in its lower tail, used to determine if a sample mean is significantly lower than a known or assumed population mean.

Test Statistic

A statistic calculated from sample data, used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis in a hypothesis test.

Null Hypothesis

The null hypothesis is a statement or assumption that there is no effect or no difference, serving as the default or starting assumption in statistical hypothesis testing.

Normal Approximation

A method used in statistics to approximate binomial distributions with normal distributions when sample sizes are large, under certain conditions.

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