What test should I run?
Gender (independent variable), Political affiliation (dependent variable)
What is a chi square?
A scale that uses "strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree"
What is a Likert scale?
Velocity would be an example of this type of data
What is ratio?
The middle score of a dataset
What is the median?
n
What is sample size?
Independent variable: College student or high school student
Dependent variable: GPA
What is a t test?
In a survey, a type of a question you should avoid:
"Should the Affordable Care Act be repealed and replaced with a single-payer health care system?"
What is a double-barreled questions?
It is "systematically varied by the researcher"
What is the independent variable?
A symmetrical distribution in which scores fall equally on each side of the mean.
What is a normal distribution?
s2
What is variance (of a sample)?
Independent variable: Major
Dependent Variable: GPA
What is an ANOVA?
In a content analysis, the "underlying meaning of communications" (Wimmer and Dominick, 2006).
What is latent content?
"Procedures that allow one to measure or explain a concept" -- Wimmer and Dominick, 2006
What is an operational definition?
How often (or frequently) scores occur in a dataset
What is a frequency distribution?
Sigma
What is a summation?
Independent variable: Political affiliation
Dependent variable: socioeconomic status
What is a chi square?
A scale that uses antonyms
What is a semantic differential scale?
Socioeconomic status would be an example of this type of data
What is ordinal?
The number that your chi square value or t test absolute value must be larger than in order to have statistical significance.
What is the critical value?
x
What is a score?
Independent variable: The exact number of hours students spent studying for a test.
Dependent variable: Score on an exam.
What is a correlation?
In a content analysis, obvious content that doesn't require interpretation
What is manifest content?
“A study designed to permit observations of the same phenomenon over an extended period of time.” (Babbie, 2009)
What is a longitudinal study?
It states that "For any normally distributed set of data, at least 99.7% of data lie within three standard deviations of the mean, at least 95% of data lie within two standard deviations of the mean, and at least 68% of data lie within one standard deviation of the mean.” -- Privitera, 2012
What is the empirical rule?
Fe
What is the expected frequency?