Dr. Ean wants to determine whether mood responses from participants in different colored rooms differed from one another. He is mostly interested in determining if participants' moods differed in the yellow room compared with both the red and blue rooms as a whole. Dr. Ean is interested in conducting a(n):
A) ANOVA.
B) one-way ANOVA.
C) chi-square.
D) matched samples test.

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A one-way ANOVA is used to compare the means of three or more independent groups (in this case, mood responses in different colored rooms) to see if there is a statistically significant difference among them. Dr. Ean's interest in comparing the mood responses in the yellow room against the combined responses from the red and blue rooms aligns with the use of a one-way ANOVA.

Dr Ean Wants to Determine Whether Mood Responses from Participants