Question

An author is preparing a figure for her manuscript. It is the first figure, and is demonstrating the improvement of critical thinking skills in children who were randomly assigned to receive music education. Data was analyzed using an independent samples t-test (n=15 per group) and had a significance value of .031. Create an appropriate figure caption for this Figure 1 to be displayed below the fictitious bar graph that displayed mean critical thinking skills for both groups, with error bars representing standard deviation.

Answer 1

The figure caption can be as under (the mean and SD values are made up):

Figure 1. Mean and standard deviation of critical thinking skills in music education (M = 12; SD = 3) and no music education (M = 8; SD = 2) test conditions.