Question

using an independent sample test

mean: .9567

St.deviation: .89483

St. mean: .04163

t: -4.050

df: 253.883

Sig: .000

research question does race(white) affect ones actual poverty?

what does my independent sampe ttest mean and what is it telling me?

poverty is coded poor, middle, upperclass

Answer 1

Independent sample t test, the value of the test statistic is t: -4.050 and the p value is 0. So we can easily reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a significance impact of race(white) on ones actual poverty. The samples are independent, that is why we are applying t test, (although it seems that a chi square test for independence would have been more appropriate)

since t value is very high, as compared to the critical value of t, hence we are able to easily reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis that race affects ones actual poverty. Since p value < level of significance, again we come to the same conclusion.

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