tudent completed a measure of alienation. Below are her data—does corridor length affect feelings of alienation? Use an independent samples t-test to analyze these data. Corridor Length Alienation Scores From 20 Different Students
Baum and Gatchel (1981, Cognitive determinants of reaction to uncontrollable
learned helplessness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 1078-1089) found that students living in longcorridor
dorms (housing 30 to 40 residents per corridor) had greater feelings of helplessness than those living in shortcorridor
dorms (housing less than 20 residents per corridor). A resident director at GSU wished to test this finding to
learn whether corridor length impacted students' sense of alienation. She randomly assigned 20 students to live in a
residence hall, with 10 students in long and 10 students in short corridors for the year. At the end of the year, each
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student completed a measure of alienation. Below are her data—does corridor length affect feelings of alienation? Use an independent samples t-test to analyze these data.
Corridor Length
Alienation Scores From 20 Different Students
Long =19,15,14,15,15,9,16,15,17,13
Short =11, 8,14,6,12,9,10,7,9,11
Note. Higher scores for alienation indicate higher degrees of reported alienation.
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