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Statistics - t-tests
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Ok, I'm stuck on the simplest part of my statistical analysis...
I've done some t-tests in the SPSS statistics programme comparing some ratings between two groups.
I've got 2 sets of ratings for 3 questions, and the difference between the two groups is significant for one of the questions.
However, the difference between the means for the two groups is actually larger for one of the other questions, however it's not saying it's significant. Is this because of the standard deviation or something? I just don't really get how that works out because I thought t-tests literally compared the means between the groups.
Can anyone enlighten me on this? I'm also unsure which bits are important to report in my appendices. Obviously the t-value, df i guess and the sig value but what about SD, standard error mean and then mean diff and standard error diff? aghh so confusing!
Thanks to anyone that helps!
I've done some t-tests in the SPSS statistics programme comparing some ratings between two groups.
I've got 2 sets of ratings for 3 questions, and the difference between the two groups is significant for one of the questions.
However, the difference between the means for the two groups is actually larger for one of the other questions, however it's not saying it's significant. Is this because of the standard deviation or something? I just don't really get how that works out because I thought t-tests literally compared the means between the groups.
Can anyone enlighten me on this? I'm also unsure which bits are important to report in my appendices. Obviously the t-value, df i guess and the sig value but what about SD, standard error mean and then mean diff and standard error diff? aghh so confusing!
Thanks to anyone that helps!
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