Sidelines writer Sarah Grace Taylor and I collaborated in 2016 on this story, which analyzed Tennessee Board of Regents salary data and determined that female faculty earned significantly less than male facuty, both at Middle Tennessee State University and throughout the Tennessee Board of Regents system.

This video shows how we analyzed the data and arrived at the conclusions the story reports:

If you’d like to follow along, you can download the Excel data file we used. Note that running the t-test, as shown in the video, will require activating Excel’s free Data Analysis ToolPak. You can learn how by watching this video, starting at the 0:30 mark.