S. (32 marks) Jessica develops a meditation program. She wants to know if the be

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S. (32 marks) Jessica develops a meditation program. She wants to know if the benefit of this program is affected by gender and/or medical diagnosis. So, she asks a group of male patients with depression, a group of female patients with depression, a group of male patients with anxiety and a group of female patients with anxiety to each rate the improvement in their mood following the program. Given the following, what can Jessica conclude? Depression M = 6.8 n=5 SS 18.8 M = 9.6 n=5 ss 1.2 Anxiety M=3.2 n=5 ss= 14.8 M 5.2 n=5 ss 22.8 Male Female

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Given data shows that in case of depression the variability in Male responses is higher than variability in female responses from their respective means which too have a considerable difference. It can be concluded that Males have more varying responses in terms of improvement in their mood than females.

In the second case of Anxiety there is not much difference between the mean values but the variability in responses is considerable.

From both the conclusions it can be interpreted that the benefits of this program is affected by gender due to their varying responses.

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