You secure a job as the executive director of a family counseling
agency. As you go through your fi les you discover that fi ve years
before you took the job the agency selected 100 families and
counseled them using a strict behaviorist model. The agency
took the next group of 100 families and counseled them using
Satir’s experiential conjoint family therapy model. Each family
received 12 sessions of therapy and each family took a before-and
after-assessment that accurately depicted how well the
family was functioning. You decide to run a t test to examine
whether or not a statistically signifi cant difference is evident between
the two approaches. This is