A Researcher Designed a Study to Test Whether Players of the "Drop

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A researcher designed a study to test whether players of the "Drop 7" smartphone app at-tain a higher score if offered a monetary incentive. Of 40 volunteers, 20 were randomly as-signed to a group where high scorers were paid $5 and the other 20 to a group simply told to "do your best." The researcher found that, on average, the volunteers in the group getting the monetary incentive scored substantially higher than those who did not receive a mone-tary incentive (mean score of 13,500 points in the group without the monetary incentive; 15,900 points in the monetary incentive group) . Identify the steps of a statistical investiga-tion in this study by answering the following questions about this study.
-Step 4: Draw inferences beyond the data. What is the researchers' conclusion about the difference in anxiety levels between the two groups?

A) Monetary incentives have no effect on players' "Drop 7" scores.
B) The average "Drop 7" score for a player offered a monetary incentive is higher than the average "Drop 7" score for a player not offered a monetary incentive.
C) The average "Drop 7" score for a player not offered a monetary incentive is higher than the average "Drop 7" score for a player offered a monetary incentive.
D) If you offer a "Drop 7" player a monetary incentive, that player will score higher than if she was not offered a monetary incentive.