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Students in General Psychology were allowed to sign up for one of two sections of that course. One section has a virtual lab component to it, in which they are given additional assignments to supplement the lecture content. These exercises consist of various games, demonstrations etc., that the students complete utilizing the CD-ROM that comes with their textbook. The other section of the course is a regular lecture class, with no supplemental lab exercises

No lab Virtual Lab
85
74
94
71
73
75
82
48
65
70
75
80 70
84
75
80
94
87
90
75
92
90

a. Conduct and interpret the appropriate analysis to determine if the virtual lab group has significantly higher scores.
b. Construct the appropriate graph to illustrate the differences in the two groups.
c. From the professor's experience, he knows that students who score in the top 10% of the class are great candidates for lab assistants in the future. What score in the Virtual Lab group would indicate such a student.

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Student's t test for Psychology data in SPSS. Test Statistic, Critical value, P value are calculated. Error bar chart is included in the analysis.

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