Male butterflies sometimes court females of other species withsimilar wing patterns. You are interested in how long males persistin courting the wrong female. You decide to test each male with adead female, to control for the effect of the female’s behavior.You use three types of test females: one from the same species asthe males, one from a different species with a similar wingpattern, and one from a different species with a different wingpattern. Each pair is placed in a cage, and you measure courtshiptime in seconds.​
#1 Female of same species: 23, 20, 17, 25, 28
#2 Female of different species, similar pattern: 18, 27, 24,21
#3 Female of different species, different pattern: 22, 21, 23,20
a. Which statistical test would you use to look fordifferences?
b. Perform the test. What is your test statistic? Can you rejectyour null hypothesis?
c. Give a biological reason why your test may have come out theway it did.
