Question: You have an inventor friend who contends that the typical layout of a keyboard is flawed & slows down people. He wants to test his new, improved keyboard, & you arrange a test for him. You arrange for ten students in a keyboarding class at a local technical school to get the old keyboard for use at school & at home, & for another ten to get the new keyboard. After some initial assessment, before handing out the new keyboards, you safely conclude that there is no difference, overall, between the groups, on either performance or experience. After two months of training, you test how many words per minute they can type:
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Old
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New
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54
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47
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62
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51
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75
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54
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59
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62
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78
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44
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64
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51
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69
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48
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72
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65
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50
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42
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53
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68
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[A] What is the dependent variable?
[B] What is the appropriate test to use for this study? Explain your answer.
[C] Perform the appropriate analysis/analyses & state your conclusions. Is your friend about to get rich?
[D] Find the hypothesis?
[E] Find the independent variable?