hey stats geeks...

Let's say you have a situation in which you're tempted to use a t-test. However, not all the values came from different subjects. One subject was read 4 times, one subject was read 2 times, and the other 3 reads are each from a different subject. (Don't ask me why this was done, not my experiment...) This so totally violates the assumption of samples being independent, right? What would you do? Take an average for each subject, and do a t-test on the averages for each subject?