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Dants is investigating the impact of construction stilts on walking patterns, comparing expert and novice users. The analysis involves two groups walking both with and without stilts, resulting in four distinct samples. An independent t-test is initially considered, but the discussion concludes that a more appropriate method is ANOVA, as it accommodates multiple samples and factors effectively.

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I am interested in examining how construction stilts affect walking patterns, and how experience with the stilts affects walking patterns. I recruited a group of expert construction stilt users, and a group of novice users and videoed their both walking on stilts and without stilts. I want to see if there is a difference in walking parameters between groups and between the walking conditions.

I am considering using an independent t-test for two samples. Is this the correct approach?

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Hi Dants, welcome to MHB!

A 2-sample t-test is to test if the means of 2 samples are different.
However, it appears you have 2 x 2 = 4 samples.
That is because you have 2 parameters: construction and expertise.
In such a case we need a more general method that can be applied to more than 2 samples: ANOVA.
 

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