Enhancing Your Social Science Essay: Main Parts & Descriptive Stats
Explore the key components of a social science essay, including introduction, literature review, methods, results, and discussion. Learn how to utilize descriptive statistics effectively and understand concepts like mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. Enhance your research with insightful inferential statistics examples.
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Using Social Sciences/Science Essay Several Main Parts: Introduction Literature Review Methods Results Discussion
Lit Review Use to find sources
Methods Critically Evaluate
Results Using stats Descriptive: Statistics that merely describe the group they belong to. Inferential: Statistics that are used to draw conclusions about a larger group of people. What is: This season, the Big High School Hockey Team scored a mean (average) of 2.3 goals per game. What is:According to our recent poll, 43% of Americans brush their teeth incorrectly.
Writing with Descriptive Stats EXAMPLE: Overall the company had another excellent year. We shipped 14.3 tons of fertilizer for the year, and averaged 1.7 tons of fertilizer during the summer months. This is an increase over last year, where we shipped only 13.1 tons of fertilizer, and averaged only 1.4 tons during the summer months. (Standard deviations were as followed: this summer .3 tons, last summer .4 tons).
Mean, Median, Mode The mean is the most common form of central tendency, and is what most people usually are referring to when the say average. It is simply the total sum of all the numbers in a data set, divided by the total number of data points. The median is simply the middle value of a data set The mode is the most commonly occurring number in the data set.
Inferential Poor example: "A t-test (t = 3.59) showed that the two groups were significantly different (p<0.01). Better example: Women scored higher than men on the aptitude test (t = 3.89, p < 0.01).
