Question: A literacy expert is trying to institute a new program for improving reading scores of people who are incarcerated. The expert finds pairs of inmates

A literacy expert is trying to institute a new program for improving reading scores of people who are incarcerated. The expert finds pairs of inmates who are matched on their IQ scores then randomly assigns one member of each pair to receive the new reading program and the other member of each pair to watch TV for the same amount of time. At the end of the program all the inmates in the study were given a reading exam. The data are:

Pair TV Watching Reading Program
1 10 12
2 15 25
3 13 15
4 16 20
a. What is the null and alternative hypothesis (in symbols) for this t-test? b. Use SPSS to calculate the appropriatet-test statistic, be sure to include your SPSS output for the t-test and descriptive statistics below. Is the t-test significant? c. State your conclusion in APA format

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