Question

I've done a survey for a research paper and I don't know how to "run the stats" on the results. Does someone have an example?

Answer 1

whats your data and what stats do you need?

Answer 2

are the results to be a sample of the overall population or is this just to be considered as the population you collected?

Answer 3

i sampled students from 5 different disciplines to find out how they work with social media in school

Answer 4

I wanted to see if there was difference between industrial design students and accounting students

Answer 5

but i have no foundation in stats

Answer 6

well, without any numbers to crunch and a clear objective; its a hopeless endeavor.

Answer 7

the mean is the most common statistic; but what is it we are comparing? how large is the data set? etc etc ...

Answer 8

are the samples random samples or simple random samples? i still aint figured out how to tell the difference :)

Answer 9

what is your null hypothesis? what is your confidence level? stuff like that. Without a clear objective ... just running the numbers is futile

Answer 10

my hypothesis is that industrial design students will find more value in collaborative learning than other students-- pulled sample from approx 2000 students over 5 different disciplines, of which 300 responded.

Answer 11

one of those disciplines is industrial design, the rest are non-design students

Answer 12

hmmm ..... the manner in which the results were obtained means that the results are only suitable for the population you were able to get ..

Answer 13

need to redress the hypothesis so that it can be quantified too. Hard to test the hypothesis on a vague value cause there is no way to determine a cutoff point.

Answer 14

for example:

more than 95% of industrial design students find more value in collaborative learning than other students.

H0 = 95%
H1 > 95% is testable

Answer 15

If the stats fall in the H1 part, the hypothesis is rejected

if they fall within the H0 part, the hypothesis might be good or bad, but at least its got some degree of non rejectablity :)

Answer 16

oh, i see what you mean. Sure, that makes sense

Answer 17

It was just the manner of how to present it that I needed to clarify-- I'm so used to qualitative data!

Answer 18

really regretting not taking stats :)

Answer 19

im just wrapping up elementary stats this term :)

Answer 20

thanks for your help-- this is a good start. going to go watch some tutorial vids :)

Answer 21

good luck ;)