cold medicine. A homeopathic remedy for the common cold swears to work more quic

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cold medicine. A homeopathic remedy for the common cold swears to work more quickly than any over-the-counter You decide to test this using data collected from 151 participants who took the homeopathic remedy and 140 participants who used the same type of regular coldmedicine. The mean days to get better are 5.5 for those who used the homeopathic remedy with a standard deviation of 0.4. The mean and standard deviation for those who used cold medicine are 5.7 and 0.9, respectively. Assume an alpha .05 This test has been determined by your fellow researchers to be a two-tailed test. Are they correct? Why? O Yes, the results could sway in favor of either the medicine or the remedy Yes, the remedy likely does work better than medicine O No, the results only matter if the remedy outperforms the medicine Yes, the results from both the remedy and the medicine likely have outliers in both directions

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This is right tailed test as it claims that homepathic remedy works quickly than any over-the-counter cold medicine.

Hence answer is No, the results only matter if the remedy outperforms the medicine

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