Question

For the data collected on Control pause in class (posted on d2l as an Excel spreadsheet), we wish to see how our data compares to the study of Joshi et al. which possibly indicates that females have a shorter control pause than men. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of male and female samples. Are there large differences in the mean and standard deviation of both samples? What are possible reasons to explain either differences or similarities?

time gender

29 m

24.2 m

17 m

20 m

24 m

33 m

21 m

13.3 m

38 m

23.7 m

41 m

22 m

22 f

24 m

25.7 m

25 m

25 f

23 f

25 m

21 m

35 m

37 m

27 f

26 m

23 m

29 m

24 m

26 m

29 m

30 m

34 f

29.5 m

16 m

38 m

35 m

20 m

26 f

20 m

20 m

20 m

23.8 m

Answer 1