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The observations consist of the time taken to complete a dexterity task using their left and right hands.</p>\n    <table border=\"1\">\n    <tbody>\n    <tr><th>{object}</th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th><th>D</th><th>E</th><th>F</th><th>G</th><th>H</th><th>I</th><th>J</th><th>K</th><th>L</th></tr>\n    <tr><th align=\"left\">Right</th>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[0]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[1]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[2]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[3]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[4]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[5]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[6]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[7]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[8]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[9]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[10]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r1[11]}$</td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr><th align=\"left\">Left</th>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[0]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[1]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[2]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[3]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[4]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[5]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[6]}$</td>\n    <td>$\\var{r2[7]}$</td>\n    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There is {cmsg1[t]} evidence of a difference between the average scores of the two groups.</p>\n  <p>&nbsp;</p>", "variablesTest": {"condition": "", "maxRuns": 100}, "preamble": {"css": "", "js": ""}, "variable_groups": [], "functions": {"pstdev": {"language": "jme", "type": "number", "definition": "sqrt(abs(l)/(abs(l)-1))*stdev(l)", "parameters": [["l", "list"]]}}, "tags": ["ACE2013", "average", "checked2015", "data analysis", "differences", "elementary statistics", "hypothesis testing", "mean", "mean ", "mean of differences", "paired t-test", "PSY2010", "standard deviation", "standard deviation of differences", "statistics", "stats", "t-test", "variance"], "metadata": {"notes": "\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t<p><strong>11/07/2012:</strong></p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p><strong><br /></strong>Added tags.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Calculation not yet tested.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p><strong>23/07/2012:</strong></p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Added description.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Checked calculation.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Changed display slightly in Advice.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p><strong>3/08/2012:</strong></p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Added tags.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \t\t        <p>Question appears to be working correctly.</p>\n                                                                                                                                \t\t                                                            \n                                                                                                                                \t\t", "description": "<p>Paired t-test to see if there is a difference between times take in a task.</p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "ungrouped_variables": ["pmsg", "msg", "cmsg1", "t999", "meandiff", "object", "sig1", "tvalue", "stdiff", "sig2", "t99", "t95", "t90", "cmsg", "d", "mu1", "r1", "r2", "mu2", "n", "t", "v", "pvalue"], "showQuestionGroupNames": false, "contributors": [{"name": "Adam Vellender", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/1844/"}]}]}], "contributors": [{"name": "Adam Vellender", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/1844/"}]}