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Week 22- Reporting the results of an experiment (Writing the results…
Week 22- Reporting the results of an experiment
Change blindness study
When someone doesn't notice a key element of their surroundings have changed
Simons & Levin (1998)
Nelson et al (2011)
An experiment on change blindness and eyewitness identification
Different Actors stealing either $5 or $500
IV = Crime seriousness
IV = No change/actor change
DV = How many participants detected the change
DV2= How many could identify actor in line up
Results
Unconscious transference - when somebody identifies an innocent person as they have seen them elsewhere
Inattentional blindness
Describes a situation when someone fails to notice something that happens right in front of them
Writing the results section
Restate hypothesis
Describe data that was collected
Report descriptive statistics(as either a table or a graph)
Describe what the descriptive statistics tell us about the data
State what differential statistical analysis was conducted
Report the results from the differential statistical analysis in the conventional form
State whether the result was statistically significant or not
State whether the hypotheses can be accepted or rejected
