A Canadian study measuring depression level in teens as

Last updated: 9/6/2023

A Canadian study measuring depression level in teens as reported in the Journal of Adolescence vol 25 2002 randomly sampled 112 male teens and 101 female teens and scored 10 points them on a common depression scale higher score representing more depression The researchers suspected that the mean depression score for male teens is higher than for female teens and wanted to check whether data would support this hypothesis The following hypotheses were tested H H H H H H The following is the edited output for the test Two Sample T Test and Cl Sample 1 M 2 F N Mean StDev SE Me an 112 7 38 6 95 101 7 15 6 31 0 66 0 63 Select one answer Difference mu 1 mu 2 Estimate for difference 95 lower bound for difference 1 271079 T Test of difference 0 230000 T Value 0 25 P Value 0 400 DF 210 Which of the following is an appropriate conclusion based on the output A O The data do not provide sufficient evidence to reject H so we accept it and conclude that male and female teens do not differ in mean depression score B The data provide sufficient evidence to reject H and to conclude that the mean depression score for male teens is larger than that of female teens C O The data do not provide sufficient evidence to conclude that the mean depression score of male teens is larger than that of female teens D O The data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that male and female teens do not differ in mean depression score