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One-sample t-test

One-sample t-test

- [Instructor] The simplest version of the t-test is the one sample t-test, which allows you to compare the mean of a single group that you have data from to a chosen hypothesized value. It might be a national average, it might be a theoretical value that represents the baseline against which you want to compare everything. Now, this is really easy to do in jamovi. Here, I'm using the example dataset, Big Five, which contains a number of ratings, where people evaluate themselves on five major personality characteristics: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. And these are all rated on a one-to-five scale. And I want to show you how we can evaluate all five of these simultaneously. But before you jump into t-tests, you always want to do some exploratory analyses to see if your data are going to work well with the intended analysis. So let's go first over here to Exploration, and let's go to Descriptives. And what I'm going to do here…

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