Question: A criminologist was interested in whether there was any disparity in sentencing based on the race of the defendant. She selected at random 16 burglary convictions and compared the prison terms given to the 8 whites and 8 blacks sampled. The white sample was found to have a mean prison sentence of M = 4.75 years with SS = 11.5; the black sample was found to have a mean prison sentence of M = 5 years with SS = 20. Using these data, determine whether whites and blacks convicted of burglary in this jurisdiction differ with respect to prison sentence length at the p < .05 significance level.