A psychologist investigates whether an intervention affects

A psychologist investigates whether an intervention affects cardiac risk scores. Sixteen participants are randomly assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group is included in an informational session that describes the different factors that lead to cardiac disease. The control group receives no informational session. The two groups are then evaluated based or knowledge of factors associated with cardiac disease. This data set is further evaluated with the factor of gender. The lower the score indicates fewer errors on the evaluation.

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Two factor ANOVA Factor 2 Means: Control Group Intervention Group Females 3.5 1.5 2.5 Factor 1 Males 7.8 6.5 7.1 5.6 4.0 4.8 ANOVA table Source SS    df MS F    p-value Factor 1 85.56 1 85.563 43.23 2.63E-05 Factor 2 10.56 1 10.563 5.34 .0395 Interaction 0.56 1 0.563 0.28 .6037 Error 23.75 12 1.979 Total 120.44 15