Imagine you’re a psyco-pharmacological researcher interested in whether or not c

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Imagine you’re a psyco-pharmacological researcher interested in whether or not common antidepressant medication has any effect on the scores of human participants performing a task of ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) sensitivity. You randomly assign 50 participants to one of two groups: 25 participate in the ESP task having received an oral dose of the antidepressant prior to testing, Group 1; the remaining 25 participants receive a placebo prior to testing, Group 2. Which hypothesis test needs to be employed here, the two-sample dependent t test or the two-sample independent ttest?

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here as we are choosing two groups for which subjects are differnt and does not have any relation with each other in relation with experiment.

therefore we are supposed to do: option B

B. independent t test

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