By analyzing data, I will be able to answer the question, is there a significant difference in the average reported cases of positive Covid cases between students and staff ? What is the recommended course of action using the below data:

It's the result of an independent sample t-test with non-equal population variances.

t = -2.065 is the test statistic, in three decimal places.

The test has a degree of freedom of df = 23.

We will perform a two-tailed test to determine whether there is a significant difference between the groups. The test's p-value is p-value = 0.0504.

We cannot reject the null hypothesis at the 10% level of significance because the p-value is bigger than 0.10.

That is, we cannot conclude that the groups are significantly different.

Then you have |-2.065|=2.065 which is less than 2.0687, which leads you not to reject, just as the p-value did.

A test statistic whose values can be combined with one or two-tailed p-values tells us how likely it is that we would have found our data or more extreme data if H0 was truly right. H0 is not rejected since p is more than 0.05.