1. Before you took this course, you probably heard many stories about Statistics courses. Oftentimes
parents of students have had bad experiences with Statistics courses and pass on their anxieties to their
children. To test whether actually taking AP Statistics decreases students' anxieties about Statistics, an
AP Statistics instructor gave a test to rate student anxiety at the beginning and end of his course.
Anxiety levels were measured on a scale of 0-10. Here are the data for 16 randomly chosen students
from a class of 180 students:
paired
t
SU
Pre-course anxiety level
Post-course anxiety level
Difference (Post - Pre)
7 6 9 5
4 3 7 3
-3 -3 -2 -2
6 7
4 5
-2 -2
5
4
-1
7 6 4
6 5 3
-1 -1 -1
3
2
-1
2 1
2 1
0 0
3
3
0
4
4
0
2
3
1