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a study of visual and auditory reaction time is conducted for a group of college

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Question

a study of visual and auditory reaction time is conducted for a group of college basketball players. Visual reaction time is measured by the time needed to respond to a light signal, and auditory reation time is measured by the time needed to respond to sound of electric switch. 15 subjects were measured with time recorded to the nearest millisecond.

subject visual auditory

1 161 157

2 203 207

3 235 198

4 176 161

5 201 234

6 188 197

7 228 180

8 211 165

9 191 202

10 178 193

11 159 173

12 227 137

13 193 182

14 192 159

15 212 156

Is there evidence that the visual reaction time tends to be slower than the auditory reaction time?

use the Wilcoxon signed rank test!!!

Explanation / Answer

Null hypothesis: H0:  visual reaction time is equals to the auditory reaction time

Alternative hyp: H1:  visual reaction time tends to be slower than the auditory reaction time

From SPSS

Conclusiuon: P value=0.111 > alpha(0.05) , we accept the null hypothesis.

Ranks N Mean Rank Sum of Ranks auditory - visual Negative Ranks 9a 9.78 88.00 Positive Ranks 6b 5.33 32.00 Ties 0c Total 15 a. auditory < visual b. auditory > visual c. auditory = visual