You may be wondering why we do not just use another t -test to test our hypotheses about three or more groups the way we did in Unit 2. After all, we are still just looking at group mean differences....You may be wondering why we do not just use another t -test to test our hypotheses about three or more groups the way we did in Unit 2. After all, we are still just looking at group mean differences. The reason is that our t -statistic formula can only handle up to two groups, one minus the other. With only two groups, we can move our population parameters for the group means around in our null hypothesis and still get the same interpretation.
You may be wondering why we do not just use another t -test to test our hypotheses about three or more groups the way we did in Unit 2. After all, we are still just looking at group mean differences....You may be wondering why we do not just use another t -test to test our hypotheses about three or more groups the way we did in Unit 2. After all, we are still just looking at group mean differences. The reason is that our t -statistic formula can only handle up to two groups, one minus the other. With only two groups, we can move our population parameters for the group means around in our null hypothesis and still get the same interpretation.