Reconsider the previous exercise about the effect of social media on a person’s self-esteem. In the actual study conducted by the statistics students, participants were given a score that measured their self-esteem.
Suppose that instead of recording a numeric score, participants were categorized as having high self-esteem or low self-esteem. Would ANOVA still have been a valid approach to analyzing the data? If yes, explain why. If no, explain why not and suggest an alternative approach to analyze the data.