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3. A therapist would like to determine if acknowledging positive statements and ignoring negative statements that a patient makes will have an effect of future statements. Before treatment, the therapist interviews patients and records the number of positive remarks made. During the next session, the therapist uses her therapy. Then during the session after the treatment, the therapist records the number of positive statements. The data are as follows... Before After 4 6 3 8 5 8 2 7 Conduct a two-tailed related measures t hypothesis test with  = .01. STEP 1: State both the null and research hypotheses (in words or symbols) H0 : µ = 3.5 (1 point) Ha : µ > 3.5 STEP 2: Set up the criteria for making a decision (Find critical value). (1 point) 4.51 STEP 3: Compute the appropriate test-statistic. (4 points)

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