Data Analysis

Question 1

What does testing a difference mean?

Answer 1

Testing whether one set of score are higher/lower than those in another set

Question 2

What does testing a correlation mean?

Answer 2

Whether there is a relationship between 2 sets of scores

Question 3

What does an independent research design mean?

Answer 3

Comparison of 2 sets of scores that are unrelated

Question 4

What does a related research design mean?

Answer 4

Comparison of 2 sets of scores from the same ppts (repeated measures design)

Question 5

What does nominal data mean?

Answer 5

Ppts are put in categories and not given a score (no scales)

Question 6

What does ordinal data mean?

Answer 6

Data will be put in a ranked order from scores

Question 7

What does interval data mean?

Answer 7

the gaps in the data are identical so you can be twice as fast as someone FE

Question 8

What does ratio data mean?

Answer 8

There is an absolute 0 there are no - numbers

Question 9

What stats test would it be if it was testing:
Difference
Independent design
Ordinal Data

Answer 9

Mann-Whitney

Question 10

What stats test would it be if it was testing:
Difference
Independent design
Nominal Data

Answer 10

Chi Squared

Question 11

What stats test would it be if it was testing:
Difference
Related Design
Ordinal Data

Answer 11

Wilcoxon

Question 12

What stats test would it be if it was testing:
Correlation
Ordinal Data

Answer 12

Spearman’s

Question 13

What are statistical tests used for?

Answer 13

Difference or correlation between 2 sets of scores

Question 14

Define significance?

Answer 14

If a finding is significant (p

Question 15

What is significance measured in?

Answer 15

P values

Question 16

What does a 1 tailed hypothesis mean?

Answer 16

It is a directional hypothesis
It predicts there will be a difference in a certain direction
There is previous research to support this
Significance is at 5% at the end of direction

Question 17

What does a 2 tailed hypothesis mean?

Answer 17

There will be a difference but they don’t know in what direction
There is either no previous research or it is contradictory
Significance is at 2.5% at each end

Question 18

What is a type 1 error?

Answer 18

You think you have a significant result when you don’t

Question 19

What is a type 2 error?

Answer 19

Claiming you don’t have a significant result when you do

Question 20

Name the methods of qualitative data collection?

Answer 20

Interview
Observations
Case Studies

Question 21

How can you analyse the qualitative data?

Answer 21

Convert it into quantitative - was one group higher than the other?
If the account is rich enough just extract the data
Content analysis
Thematic analysis

Question 22

What are the advantages of using qualitative data?

Answer 22

It has higher validity - truer to life

Question 23

What are the disadvantages of using qualitative data?

Answer 23

There is not systematic way of collecting data meaning that biases/cherry picking/subjective interpretation come into play