Thank Dennis, Jim, Donald, and Jay for the quick feedback regarding my confusion between unpaired t test and one-way ANOVA.
Yes, my previous 'close look' was not close enough: A little further algebraic operation does show that the F test for the significance of the factor effect should be equivalent to the t test for the difference between the two factor level means.
 
Now I have another question: In N-way ANOVA, does the above conclusion hold as well? Among the N factors there is one factor A that has two levels: would the F test for the significance of factor A be equivalent to the t test (two-sided) for the difference between the two factor level means? I feel it should, but want to confirm it.
 
Thanks again,
Gang Chen

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