{"id":2672,"date":"2025-03-13T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:42:23","slug":"7-march-its-data-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/7-march-its-data-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Data Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You\u2019re making great progress on your research idea! You have a research question and hypothesis, and you\u2019ve decided on your research team, study design\/methodology, and research ethics implications. Now you\u2019re ready to plan your data analyses, which is the best part! Okay, planning the stats isn\u2019t the best part, but once you actually *do* the statistics, it will be the best part because that\u2019s where you get the *answer* you\u2019ve been working towards, so it is an exciting part of this process, even if it might appear intimidating (particularly if you\u2019re navigating it by yourself). If you\u2019re primary analysis will be to analyze text-based responses (e.g., looking for themes), that\u2019s something that Generative AI can help you with<\/a>! Be sure to log in to Copilot using your DC email before you upload any of this text, though, because you don\u2019t want it to go outside of DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reminder, you don\u2019t need any special statistical software to do a lot of the basic statistics you\u2019re likely to need- you can do many things in Excel if you just enable the Analysis Toolpak.<\/a> However, if you don\u2019t love Excel and\/or think your analyses will go beyond what Excel is likely to be able to do, then I highly recommend that you download the free program JASP<\/a> as it is quite user-friendly. Because it is popular, there are also many free resources (either from JASP or statistics professors) for you to tap into if you get stuck. Specifically, you might be interested in this how-to JASP resource<\/a> with a focus on diversity research for the data\/examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s important to select the right statistical test for your data. One way to get this answer is to use a decision tree like this one<\/a> (there is also a video version at that same url). You\u2019ll also want to know which measure of effect size is appropriate for your analysis because reporting an effect size<\/a> tells readers the \u201cimportance\u201d of any significant differences you find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not, there are some ethical considerations related to statistical analyses. For example, you should be intentional about how many statistical tests\/comparisons you run (p-hacking<\/a> is an ethical problem). Additionally, once you collect your data, you\u2019ll want to clean it by removing outliers and ensuring it\u2019s normally distributed (or transforming it or using a non-parametric test). Keep track of all of these decisions. Most of the time, the specific decision you make is less important that your transparency about it when you eventually publish your research. I\u2019m happy to help with this! \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also see my previous post about statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re making great progress on your research idea! You have a research question and hypothesis, and you\u2019ve decided on your research team, study design\/methodology, and research ethics implications. Now you\u2019re ready to plan your data analyses, which is the best part! Okay, planning the stats isn\u2019t the best part, but once you actually *do* the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drlynnekennette.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}