Mary had a follow-up study about the therapeutic effects of having animals. She
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Mary had a follow-up study about the therapeutic effects of having animals. She had 440 volunteers, who were given therapy dogs. She gave a well-being survey 1 week before the “pet treatment” and 4 and 12 weeks after. She also had a control group of 50 volunteers who filled out the well being surveys at the same time periods, but were not given therapy dogs. 4. What kind of study is this? A. Correlation B. Real Experiment C. Naturalistic Observation D. None of the answers 5. What is the best inferential test to use? A. One-sample t-test B. Paired-samples t-test C. Independent-samples t-test D. Pearson Correlation E. ANOVA
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Mary had a follow-up study about the therapeutic effects of having animals. She had 440 volunteers, who were given therapy dogs. She gave a well-being survey 1 week before the “pet treatment” and 4 and 12 weeks after. She also had a control group of 50 volunteers who filled out the well being surveys at the same time periods, but were not given therapy dogs. 4. What kind of study is this? A. Correlation B. Real Experiment C. Naturalistic Observation D. None of the answers 5. What is the best inferential test to use? A. One-sample t-test B. Paired-samples t-test C. Independent-samples t-test D. Pearson Correlation E. ANOVA