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Question:

1. Suppose I have collected data, including gender on a group of people. I dummy coded the data for gender such that 1 = male; 2 = female. Can I have the computer calculate a mean on gender?

2. Suppose that I have calculated a mean for gender that is 1.74. What advice would you give me in interpreting this number?

3. What would be a better choice for presenting information about gender?

4. When do we use dummy coding?

5. Why do we want to provide descriptive statistics in our write-ups?

6. What does the standard deviation tell us?

7. When we conduct a one-sample t test, what are the two things being compared?

8. What is our alpha level in this course?

9. Use the chart below to answer the following questions. If you wanted to find all the information we have about participant 3, where would you look?

10. Use the chart below to answer the following questions. If you wanted to find all the information we have about the number of words recalled, where would you look?

11. If you were adding information about another participant, where would you put that information?

Participant Gender Age Major Words Recalled

1 1 20 1 15

2 2 21 2 18

3 1 36 3 16

4 2 34 1 17