Q1_1:Symmetrical, normal

Q1_2a:2.025882

Q1_2b:0.483626

Q1_3:0.03534812

Q2_1:To estimate populations

Q2_2:Symmetrical, normal but with an outlier

Q2_3:Y

Q2_4:71.66053

Q2_5:26.35673

Q2_6:4.275626

Q2_7:8.380072

Q2_8:Skewed and with an outlier

Q2_9:Y

Q2_10_1:71.66053

Q2_10_2:68.72973

Q2_10_3:66.7

Q2_10_4:66.6

Q2_10_5:694.677

Q2_10_6:378.5033

Q2_10_7:26.35673

Q2_10_8:19.45516

Q2_10_9:32.375

Q2_10_10:33.2

Q2_10:Means, variances/standard deviations are sensitive to outliers whereas medians and ranges are more robust

Q3_1_1:17.114545

Q3_1_2:4.733333

Q3_1_3:14.000000

Q3_1_4:142.40553

Q3_1_5:11.97067

Q3_1_6:68.06857

Q3_1_7:11.933379

Q3_1_8:3.459865

Q3_1_9:8.250368

Q3_1_a:N

Q3_2a:N

Q3_2b:Strong evidence that two of the three populations are skewed.

Q3_2b:Y

Q3_3a:Y

Q3_3b:Y

Q3_4:Not really, but keep in mind that non-normality could be preventing relationships from standing out.

Q3_5a:Y

Q3_5b:Y

Q3_5c:N

Q4_1_a:There is a significant difference in the population mean metabolic rate of male and female breeding northern fulmars

Q4_1_b:There is no significant difference in the population mean metabolic rate of male and female breeding northern fulmars

Q4_1_c:The population mean metabolic rate of male breeding fulmars equals the population mean metabolic rate of female breeding fulmars

Q4_2:12

Q4_3a:1.782288

Q4_3b:2.178813

Q4_4_1:Normality

Q4_4_2:Boxplots for each group

Q4_4_3:Homogeneity of variance

Q4_4_4:Examining boxplots for each group, plot of mean vs variance, and residual plot

Q4_4_5:Independent observations

Q4_4_6:Random, unbiased sampling

Q4_5a:N

Q4_5b:N

Q4_6a:0.7732

Q4_6b:10.468

Q4_6c:0.4565

q4_7:4

Q4_7a:0.7732

Q4_7b:10.468

Q4_7c:0.4565

Q5_1:Paired t-test since observations are not independent. The observations are paired - each of the conditions was measured on each spider, rather than have a separate spider for each condition.

q5_3:4

Q5_3a:0.9654

Q5_3b:16

Q5_3c:0.3487

q5_4:2

Q5_4a:2.1482

Q5_4b:16

Q5_4c:0.04735

Q6_1:N

Q6_2a:That the sum ranks are the same

Q6_2b:That the observations are all independent and unbiased

Q6_3a:Reject the null hypothesis that the rank means are equal

Q6_3b:There is a significant difference between the population mass of male and female breeding fulmars