A researcher wants to study the effect of college education on people's earning by comparing the annual salaries of a randomly-selected group of 100 college graduates to the annual salaries of 100 randomly-selected group of people whose highest level of education is high school. To compare the mean annual salaries of the two groups, the researcher should use a t test for ______________.
A training coordinator wants to determine the effectiveness of a program that makes extensive use of educational technology when training new employees. She compares the scores of her new employees who completed the training on a nationally-normed test to the mean score of all those in the country who took the same test. The appropriate statistical test the training coordinator should use for her analysis is the t test for _____________.
As part of the process to develop two parallel forms of a questionnaire, the persons creating the questionnaire may administer both forms to a group of students, and then use a t test for ________samples to compare the mean scores on the two forms.