Title: Descriptive Statistics and One-Sample t-test Analysis of Research Methods Exam Scores Summary: The purpose of this assignment was to analyze the test scores of 10 students on a standardized psychology exam given at the end of a Research Methods course

Professor is giving a standardized psychology exam that is given at the end of many Research Methods courses. Given the following students’ test scores (95, 92, 90, 90, 83, 83, 83, 74, 60, and 50), identify the mean, median, mode, range, variance, and standard deviation for the sample. SPSS is strongly recommended for this assignment.
write a 500 word summary and analysis discussing the results of your calculations.
State your results for the sample by inserting a table from SPSS. Highlight the mean, median, mode, range, variance, and standard deviation.
Explain which descriptive statistic is best for this data set. Why?
Conduct a one-sample t-test and interpret the results (use a population mean of 70) in SPSS. Are the results significant? 
In what situations would this information be useful? Why would a t-test be useful?

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