The \"misery is not miserly\" phenomenon refers to a sad person\'s spending judg

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The "misery is not miserly" phenomenon refers to a sad person's spending judgment going haywire. In a recent study, 31 young adults were given $10 and randomly assigned to either a sad or a neutral group. The participants in the sad group watched a video about the death of a boy s mentor (from The Chump), and those in the neutral group watched a video on the Great Barrier Reel. After the video, each participant was offered the chance to trade $0.50 increments of the $10 for an insulated water bottle.^26 Here are the data: Examine each group's prices graphically. Is use of the t procedures appropriate for these data? Carefully explain your answer. Make a table with the sample size, mean, and standard deviation for each of the two groups. State appropriate null and alternative hypotheses lor comparing these two groups. Perform the significance test at the alpha = 0.05 level, making sure to report the test statistic, degrees of freedom, and P-value. What is your conclusion? Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean difference in purchase price between the two groups.

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neutral sad Ho : miu 1 = miu 2 0 3 Ha : miu1 is different miu 2 2 4 0 0.5 t = ( 2.118 - 0.571 ) / srqt [ 0.730^2 / 14 + 1.244^2 / 17 ) ] 1 1 t =4.306 0.5 2.5 0 2 p value : 0.00001 0.5 1.5 2 0 since p value is lower than alpha we reject Ho 1 1 conclusion 0 1.5 the mean of both groups is different 0 1.5 0 2.5 0 4 1 3 3.5 1 3.5 x-bar 0.571 2.118 SD 0.730 1.244 n 14 17

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