Social Emotional Intelligence A local researcher compared the incoming freshmen from Cheyney University to high school freshman at Garnet Valley High School. Here is the 95% confidence interval for the two population means, where the measures for Cheyney corresponded to population1 and the measures for Garnet Valley corresponded to population 2:

1.76 < 1 2< 1.16

What does the confidence interval suggest about equality of the means in populations 1 and 2 depicted above?

a significant difference exists, as it does not include 0 or a significant difference does not exist, as it includes 0.