In a Neurological Study of the Effect of Environment on Mental

Multiple Choice

In a neurological study of the effect of environment on mental development, rats were randomly assigned to be raised in one of the four following test conditions: Impoverished (wire mesh cage - housed alone) , Standard (cage with other rats) , Enriched (cage with other rats and toys) , and Super Enriched (cage with other rats and toys changed on a periodic basis) . After two months, the rats were tested on a variety of learning measures, one of them being the number of attempts needed to learn to navigate a maze. The data for the maze task are below, along with means and standard deviation for each group.
-Does the analysis using the Mean Group Diff statistic allow you to determine which test conditions differ significantly from which others?

A) Yes, since the Mean Group Diff statistic was statistically significant.
B) Yes, since the sample means across groups differ.
C) No, since it is an overall test.
D) No, since the sample size is too small.