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Question 17

It is known that the average time an adult can read a 1000-word passage is 4.5 minutes. A psychologist is interested in whether exercising eye muscles would make this process faster. 25 adults voluntarily participate in the research, and they do eye exercises for 5 minutes every day for 2 weeks. After the training session, they come to the researcher's lab and read a 1000-word passage while being timed. The dataset is provided in the Excel file.

Based on the information above, what should this researcher conclude?

  • A. Reject the null hypothesis
  • B. Fail to reject the null hypothesis
  • C. The results are inconclusive
  • D. The t obtained score does not exceed the t critical score
  • E. Retain the null hypothesis