The paper Pathological Video- Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18: A National Study (Psychological Science

The paper €œPathological Video- Game Use Among Youth Ages 8 to 18: A National Study€ (Psychological Science [2009]: 594€“705) included the information in the accompanying table about video game playing time for representative samples of 588 males and 590 females selected from U.S. residents ages 8 to 18.

Carry out a hypothesis test to determine if there is convincing evidence that the mean number of hours per week spent playing video games by females is less than the mean number of hours spent by males. Use a significance level of 0.01.

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Sample Mean Sample Standard Deviatlon Sample (hours per Sample week) (o perweek) Size Females Males 590 588 9.2 16.4 10.2 14.1