Table 3 Independent samples t-test of the male and female students
From: The effect of gender and language proficiency on the metaphor use in the writing of TEFL students
Levene's test for equality of variances | T-test for equality of means | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F | Sig. | t | Df | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean difference | Std. error difference | 95% confidence interval of the difference | ||
Lower | Upper | ||||||||
MD | |||||||||
Equal variances assumed | 2.38 | .129 | − 1.14 | 48 | .258 | − 5.48 | 4.79 | − 15.12 | 4.15 |
Equal variances not assumed | − 1.17 | 48.00 | .244 | − 5.48 | 4.65 | − 14.84 | 3.87 | ||