Question: News Story 19 and Additional News Story 19 on the CD. The following quote is from Additional News Story 19: They found that adolescents who were romantically involved during the year experienced a significantly larger increase in symptoms of depression than adolescents who were not romantically involved. They also found that depression levels of romantically involved girls increased more sharply than that of romantically involved boys, especially among younger adolescents. (Lang, 2001)
Read News Story 19, "Young romance may lead to depression, study says" and use it to answer these questions.
a. How many participants were there in this study?
b. The story actually reports the magnitude of the difference in depression levels for romantically involved and uninvolved teens. What was it?
c. Given your answers to parts a and b, which two of the seven warnings in Section 24.4 apply to the preceding quote from Additional News Story 19?
d. Do you think the word significantly in the quote is being used in the statistical or the English sense of the word?