An evaluative researcher measured a group of teenage parents on sleep deprivation before and after the birth of their children and categorized each teenage parent as high or low on sleep deprivation according to some threshold of sleep deprivation and decides to use the McNemar test because:

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The McNemar test is used to analyze paired nominal data and is specifically designed to test the significance of changes in a binary outcome. In this case, the researcher is comparing the before and after sleep deprivation levels of the same group of teenage parents, and categorizing them into high or low levels of sleep deprivation. The McNemar test is appropriate because it measures changes in these categories, specifically testing whether the number of people who experience a high sleep deprivation level before and a low sleep deprivation level after is significantly greater than the number of people who experience a low sleep deprivation level beforehand and a high sleep deprivation level afterwards.

An Evaluative Researcher Measured a Group of Teenage Parents on Sleep