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Title: Research Methods question
Post by: studying_hard on November 01, 2010, 02:34:17 pm

what does it mean exactly when it asks "Was there a statistical difference between the 2 groups of students? Justofy your resonse"
It was in Neap 10'

Title: Re: Research Methods question
Post by: bpexpress on November 01, 2010, 02:41:59 pm

You'd have to check whether the p value was found to be <0.05 (or whatever they set their level of significance to) If it is lower then what has been set, then it can be said that it is statistically significant i.e that the probability of the results occurring only due to chance is < 5% (or whatever it's set to).

I think that's worded right. If not, feel free to correct me.

Title: Re: Research Methods question
Post by: studying_hard on November 01, 2010, 02:45:30 pm

k thanks, i thought it was that but there was another p-value question after so i thought i may have been doing the wrong thing lol

Title: Re: Research Methods question
Post by: bpexpress on November 01, 2010, 10:05:40 pm

No worries :)
Yeah, I got a little confused when I was doing it as well.