What statistical test should i use

Question

i will do a test to compare gender results to the parental rejection scale

One round for mother

another round for father

Answer 1

Hi Desiray,

I may need a little more info to understand your experiment. Are you asking whether mothers tend to score higher or lower on the rejection scale than fathers? Are you pairing married couples, or comparing all men to all women?

Your experiment may have the following features:

1. categorical independent variable (gender)
2. two levels of the independent variable
3. continuous dependent variable (rejection scale)
4. paired samples (pairing married couples?)

If I've got all that right, you're looking at a paired t-test (or its non-parametric equivalent the Wilcoxon sign-rank test). If mothers and fathers are unpaired, you're looking at a students t-test (or Wilcoxon rank-sum)

This website (https://www.anzmtg.org/stats/PathwayWizard/Next) provides a really nice resource to help make decisions like this

Hope this is helpful!