Answer:
On this case since the p value is less than 0.05 then the results are significant. So then Joshua can say that the t-test conducted is significant. And on this case makes sense report the effect size.
Step-by-step explanation:
Effect size is defined as a "quantitative measure of the magnitude of the experimenter effect". If we have a high value for the effect size then we can conclude that we have a stronger relationship between two variables.
t-test: Is used to compare group means. Is one of the most common tests and is used to determine whether the means of two groups are equal to each other.
The independent t-test, is an statistical test in order to determine if we have statistically significant difference between the means of two unrelated groups.
We can check for example the following hypothesis:
Null hypothesis:[tex]\mu_{1} \leq \mu_{2}[/tex]
Alternative hypothesis:[tex]\mu_{1} > \mu_{2}[/tex]
The statistic for this test is given by:
[tex]t=\frac{\bar X_{1}-\bar X_{2}}{\sqrt{\frac{s^2_{1}}{n_{1}}+\frac{s^2_{2}}{n_{2}}}}[/tex] (1)
The value obtained after apply the formula (1) was 10.25.
And the degreed of freedom are calculated from:
[tex]df=n_1 +n_2 -2 =20[/tex]
On this case since the p value is less than 0.05 then the results are significant. So then Joshua can say that the t-test conducted is significant. And on this case makes sense report the effect size.
Usually when the Cohen effect size value d=0.2 or lower we can consider this as a 'small' effect size, and that's our case.