Subjects in the weapon condition were only slightly, but notsignificantly, less accurate than controls on the 20-itemquestionnaire. Weapon present subjects were correct on 45.8% of theitems, while control (weapon absent) subjects were correct on 50.3%of the items, t(34) = 1.37, p > .05, one tailed.
What kind of study design is this (experimental orcorrelational)?
If experimental, what is the independent variable?
If experimental, what is the dependent variable?
What kind of statistical test did the author run, and how do youknow the used this test?
What do you think the null and alternative hypotheses are inthis study? You might have to guess, but make it an educatedguesses
