PSYC3070: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Scholars,

I hope this news make you a little sad… I’m going to not meet synchronously in lab this week. But your dedication to science is appreciated and I am about to make some readings available to you that will help you understand hypothesis testing even better!

I have some responsibilities that I need to take care of  tomorrow afternoon and I think we are a bit ahead of the curve thanks to our lab time, so start reading these articles:  This list is a work in progress and I will be updating it this morning. Your presentations will also involve these readings.

Please take the time you have set aside for this lab and begin reading these articles. They are written at many different levels, look through them and find a place to begin that you feel comfortable with.

I’ll see the TTr class at 9:35 to introduce independent sample t-tests.

Best, Chuck

I’m moving the hypothesis testing presentations to next week (10/1st and 2nd). I want to cover more material so that I have a wider range of material to share with you all.

I certainly hope these go better than the test corrections. Thursday’s lab did the minimal, but Friday’s lab was in the tank. I just find it hard to believe that so many people would work so hard not to learn or to take advantage of a generous opportunity.

I will be sharing group presentations and many materials here on the blog. There will be some directions, but because of the diversity of what I have in mind we will go over it in class too.

So we’ll take our t-test test on Tuesday.

Be sure and re-read your chapters. Again, we’ll start with some closed book work, then move to hand calculations.

Reading materials on hypothesis testing are available in the library on reserve.

Additionally, I’d encourage everyone to review our t-test SPSS materials on the SPSS screencasting website. 

Scholars,

As usual posters and presentation work for SEPA is running behind. I am making the following virtual assignments for tomorrow. Take these seriously and I think you’ll be ahead of the game when I get back and return to my endless babbling about distributions and such…

I have four articles on reserve in the library. I hope at least one will resonate with you.

Additionally, Check out the following websites on hypothesis testing:

• Type I and Type II Errors – Making Mistakes in the Justice System
• Introduction to hypothesis testing — The z-test