Dr Vance wanted to investigate whether there is a difference in the number of navigation errors made during a flight simulation task between professional commercial drone pilots and recreational hobbyist pilots. She recorded the number of flight errors (on a scale of 0 to 50) for a sample of 10 professional pilots and 10 hobbyist pilots.
| Participant | Flight errors of professional pilots | Flight errors of hobbyist pilots |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | 14 | 25 |
| 3 | 5 | 22 |
| 4 | 11 | 19 |
| 5 | 9 | 30 |
| 6 | 15 | 24 |
| 7 | 7 | 17 |
| 8 | 12 | 28 |
| 9 | 6 | 21 |
| 10 | 13 | 26 |
| Mean |
Explain which statistical (inferential) test Dr Vance should use to analyse the data in Table 1.
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