You have two independent samples of size 24 and 27. You conduct a hypothesis test and obtain a p-value. Using the conservative method what would you use for the degrees of freedom for comparison?



24

27

23

26

49

Degrees of freedom = n1 + n2 - 2

THE ANSWER IS 23! Don't listen to math guru. He lies

To determine the degrees of freedom for comparison in this scenario, we need to consider the larger sample size. In this case, the larger sample size is 27.

When using the conservative method in hypothesis testing, we assume that the degrees of freedom for comparison is equal to the smaller of the two sample sizes minus 1.

In this case, the smaller sample size is 24. Therefore, the degrees of freedom for comparison would be 24 - 1 = 23.

So the correct answer is 23.