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Two-sample t-tests for a difference in mean involve independent samples or unpaired samples. Paired t-tests are a form of blocking, and have greater power than unpaired tests when the paired units are similar with respect to noise factors that are independent of membership in the two groups being compared.
However, doing it this way does not do justice to the data, as it concerns paired observations much of the differences within the two sets of data which the usual t-test (for two independent samples) considers might already have been taken out.