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What is a potential risk when conducting research?
Psychological stress
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When conducting observational research, do you need consent?
No
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What is experimental bias?
When researcher's expectations influence study outcomes
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Time of day is an example of which measurement scale?
Interval
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Which measurement scale involves replacing categories with numbers in order to analyse data?
Nominal
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What does chi-square do?
Compares response frequencies
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Is chi-square a parametric or non-parametric test?
Non-parametric
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What does the null hypothesis mean?
There is no association between the variables
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What are the values we actually obtained?
Observed frequencies
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What are the expected frequencies?
Values we would expect to see if the null hypothesis was true
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What does mutual exclusivity mean?
Each observed person/ case must appear in only one data cell
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What is variance?
An estimate of average variability of a data set
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Why do we use variance?
To work out the ratios between the variance of what we are interested in and what we are not interested in
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When is a test significant?
P
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How do you calculate the F ratio?
Variance between divided by variance within
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What would you use Mauchly's test of sphericity for?
To check there is homogeneity of variance
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