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I was just doing some revision and came across a sticky thought -

Suppose you got two appraisers for 9 car damages and both give different prices for the repair. Would the samples be independent or paired? I reckon it's paired but I can't put a reasoning behind it!

And I also did a 95% confidence interval for the mean difference of repair costs but what is the damn meaning of the result?!

Thanks guys!
 

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Do you believe that the value a (presumably trained) appraiser comes up with for car damage is purely random? If so then they are independent.
 
Since the measurements are on the same vehicles, they are dependent - this is an example of a matched-pair (a.k.a. paired-difference) data collection.