Course talk:PSYC305/2013ST2/ClassProject/3.1 Method - Participants

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry for the late response, I have noticed that there are a lot of missing data in the raw Excel file. While almost every participant filled out the majority of the survey, only 22 participants have given responses to all of the questions.

I'm trying to do more analysis including finding the Cronbach's alpha. Has anyone found a solution to filling out the missing data for some participants?

Hi JarrodZhang,

There are a number of ways to "deal" with missing data and it's beyond the scope of this course to go into details of what they might mean. Are you able to do it with pairwise deletion, if so, I would suggest doing that?

If you aren't able to come up with a final alpha score make sure you still note the work you've done to try and do it in your individual report! Jaimie

I put some of this in the abstract; perhaps it is better here. Please anyone-- let me know if I'm missing anything once the results are in. cheers Kevin

Hi Kevin (and others) the summary of the responses https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mxZ1XnXKftGkhrlL2zknFmHutCpLSbnpp05LnNj2nAg/viewanalytics will be useful for filling in the blanks that you have.

Also, if anyone wants to access the raw data you can find it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah0g6L7VB8yEdHdCY3dxbWZKaHE1UnlIc1dFM29Lb3c&usp=sharing

I edited it a little bit, but I don't know the total number of students enrolled in the class

Great start. Interesting idea that having participation be mandatory might influence the results, but it would probably be best to discuss that in the discussion section of the paper.

Yes hi all, and good idea Lauren to move that bit to the 'discussion.' I'll check to see if I mentioned it elsewhere too.

I changed the sentence "No participants chose not to report their gender" to the remove the double-negative: "All students 60 chose to report their gender." Hope that's ok!

Hello guys I tired to make it more clear by classifying the participants into demographics. Let me know what you guys think. Please feel free to change or edit anything you feel is unclear.

This is looking really good. A couple of things - the tables will need to be given numbers and titles (as per APA style). Also, the first table and the pie chart are showing the same data - I think we will only need one of them (I'd suggest the table).

Okay I've took out the pie graph and added the APA style tables. However I don't know how to format the number and title inside the table so I just followed your format and code on Gender Differences. Hope this works!

Wow looks good!

I agree, I think this section is looking very polished.

I just noticed that in the section where it asks about religious belief we have both: Islam and Muslim.

Since they both mean the same and we have 0 people who picked Muslim and not Islam, do you guys think we should delete it? I kind of find it useless...

Should I go ahead and delete 'Muslim'?

Yes, I agree it should be deleted. Good spotting!