Question

Two reports on cross-cultural psych 354. Compare and contrast articles and it is difficult to differentiate between inferential or descriptive stats. One report had both data and graphs the other one did not have graphs but data.

Answer 1

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(Answer) Report with data and graphs –

Report with data and no graphs –

The commonality with both reports is that they both have data. This means that an investigation has been conducted in both cases. In other words, both cases have a researcher that has collected and perhaps compiled the data to form a comprehensive file. In both cases, there are not blind assumptions but would have educated guesses and hypotheses. For instance, if the matter being investigated was the disappearance of the bees, both cases would have had a researcher going into the local woods, which would function as the sample size of a district or nation. These researchers in both cases would have counted the number of beehives that they have seen.

The difference is the first situation has graphs and the second doesn’t. This means that the first case has a hypothesis that is tested and either proved or disproved. The second case, however, has stagnant data that hasn’t been processed to form a viable conclusion. This means that in the first case, the researcher has used the data of how many bee hives they have currently found and compared it with old data from a forest ranger’s archive from a few decades ago. This means that the researcher has a comprehensive graph that marks the progression or regression of the bee population in order to prove or disprove the hypothesis.

This makes the research with the data and graphs more formidable than the one that does not have graphs.