T-test

Table 1.

T-test for amount of encouragement that the Astronaut Pudding activity had on the family spending time together depending on highest level of education obtained in the household.

Highest obtained education in the household	Mean	t-statistic
High School	10	6.8799
Some College	9	6.8799

Note. p<.05*, p<.01**, p<.001***

            The independent variable is v33. This variable is the question “What is the highest degree of education anyone in your household has completed?”. The answers that may be selected are as follows: 1. Less than High School, 2. High School, 3. Some College, 4. College degree or higher, 5. Prefer not to answer. This variable was recoded into two groups. The first group contains answer 1, which is High School. This group is named “High School”, as seen in Table 1. The second group contains answers 3 and 4, which are Some College and College degree or higher. This group is named “Some College”, which is also seen in Table 1. The dependent variable is v28. This variable is the question “Did the Astronaut Pudding Activity encourage your family to spend time together?”. The answers provided for this question is a scale from 0 to 10, 0 meaning not at all and 10 meaning greatly. This variable was recoded into three groups. The first groups is named “Not Encouraged”, having answers from -.5 to 2.5. The second group is named “Slightly Encouraged”, having answers falling in between 2.5 and 7.5. The third group is named “Encouraged”, having answers from 7.5 and up. The mean for High School is 10 and the mean for Some College is 9. This shows that respondents with a higher education obtained in the household answered slightly less than the respondents who have a lower education obtained in the household. With a p-value of 1.948e-09, which is a *** due to the p-value being less than .001, this means there is a significant difference between the means.