A researcher conducted a study on how frames about congressional conflict affect

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A researcher conducted a study on how frames about congressional conflict affect levels of trust in government. People’s levels of trust were measured before reading news about conflict, and then after reading news about conflict. The outcome variable is levels of trust measured on a 1-7 scale with higher values indicating more trust. The average level of trust in government after reading the news was mean = 3.2 (SD=1.14). The average level of trust before reading the news was mean = 3.9 (SD=0.09). There are 170 people in the study.What type of sample is this? In other words, what type of comparison will you make to   test whether the before and after group differ from one another?What would you expect is the relationship between conflict frames and trust? Write this as though they were for a published article.

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This is matched or repeated samples. Here we compare the average level of trust in government before and after reading the news.

WE expect that there will be negative correlation between conflict frames and trust.

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