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Psych 241 – Methods Lab section 03

Psych 241 – Methods Lab section 03. TuTh – 4:00-5:15. Reporting Statistics. Reporting Statistics. Reporting Statistics. Three questions to answer when you report results: What type of test did you use, and what did you use it for? What were the differences and were they significant?

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Psych 241 – Methods Lab section 03

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  1. Psych 241 – MethodsLab section 03 TuTh – 4:00-5:15

  2. Reporting Statistics

  3. Reporting Statistics

  4. Reporting Statistics • Three questions to answer when you report results: • What type of test did you use, and what did you use it for? • What were the differences and were they significant? • What does your result mean?

  5. Reporting Statistics • The key statistics to report: • Mean differences: These are the numbers that show which direction the differences are in, and they can help us get an idea of how large of a difference there is. • Statistical significance: Are these differences significant? • Report what statistic you used and what the value is. • Report the degrees of freedom. • Reports the significance value. • Significance value should be reported as ‘=‘ UNLESS the result says ‘.000’ in which case we say that the result is ‘<‘ (less than) .001.

  6. Example • Pens down! • ‘There was a significant (not a significant) difference in the scores for IV level 1 (M=___, SD=___) and IV level 2 (M=___, SD=___) conditions; t(__)=___, p = ____’

  7. Reporting Statistics

  8. Reporting Statistics

  9. Reporting Statistics • Pens down! • Now, let’s go back and think about how we would report the results that we found together!

  10. And now for something completely different! Inductive vs. Deductive • Israel-Palestine study • Perspective-Taking

  11. Class activity: developing a study • Groups! • Find a topic of interest • Find something you would like to know or test • Think about how you would ‘operationalize’ that • Create the hypothesis • Talk about predicted results

  12. Class activity • Parts of a research paper: • Introduction • Subjects (Method) • Materials (Method) • Procedure (Method) • Results • Discussion

  13. Paper Outline

  14. Homework • Rough draft of method and results • Rough draft of the introduction • Oh, and BTW: No class on Thursday

  15. Contact Information • ladelman@psych.umass.edu • Tobin 626 • Office hour: Tuesdays from 1-2pm

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