Question

When you conduct a t test for independent means, ____.

Group of answer choices

you reject the null hypothesis if the t score is more extreme than the cutoff (criterion) t score

you need to make sure that the medians of the two populations are equal

you need to make sure that the two sample sizes are exactly the same

you should only use an alpha level of .01 because of the lower power of this test compared to dependent-means t test

Answer 1

While conducting a t-test for independnet means, we calculate the t-statistic or t-score and reject the null hypothesis H0 if the t-score is greater than the critical/cutoff value.

Hence 1st option.