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Workshop this week: Figures and plagiarism Next week (w/c 21st of November 2011)
Wednesday Lecture (GEG31) Friday Lecture (CSG2) Workshop
SPSS class test t-tests (open book) Mandatory but does not form the basis of your end of year mark
Here it is
The eel is 50cm (i.e. more than a quarter of my height)
NEED A RATIONALE
Based on the patient self-report, we have a rationale to examine the following proposition... Does insertion of an eel alleviate the symptoms of constipation? Null hypothesis (H0): ??? Experimental hypothesis (H1): ???
We will cover ethics in another session; but suffice to say, this is not acceptable conduct Good luck getting participants!
HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE!
Appropriate title
Eel No Eel
HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE!
Figure 1: Mean constipation scores for the eel and no eel groups
No eel group
89.45 15.39
HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE!
Once we have t and the df we can assess the probability of getting that value by chance (t distribution Gosset)
But if we have a critical area at both tails each area can only be 2.5% (to equal 5% in total) this score then ceases to be significant
Insertion of a live animal into the rectum causing rectal perforation has never been reported. This may be related to a bizarre healthcare belief, inadvertent sexual behaviour, or criminal assault. However, the true reason may never be known. (Lo et al., 2004, p. 111)
Participants
How many, how many male/female, mean age, who were they, and recruited from where
Materials
Key materials used - describe in some detail and do not rely uniquely on an appendix
Procedure
Chronological account of your study
If three or more authors: for the first citation you must write Martin, Carlson and Buskist (2007:35) argued that... and then after that you can refer to them as... Martin et al. (2007:23) argued... Quotes: e.g. Hills (2007:34) stated that the effect was transient and difficult to replicate.
Reading
Chapter 24: Planning your practical and writing your report [Coolican, H. (2009). Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology (5th Edition). London: Hodder and Stoughton]