What response would you provide to the authors about this footnote?

TWO PART ASSIGNMENT
(Discussion 1 and Assignment 1); Please separate the assignments:
DISCUSSION: Statistical
Significance and Meaningfulness
To prepare for this
Discussion:
·
Review the Learning
Resources related to hypothesis testing, meaningfulness, and statistical
significance.
·
Review Magnusson’s web
blog found in the Learning Resources to further your visualization and
understanding of statistical power and significance testing.
·
Review the American
Statistical Association’s press release and consider the misconceptions and
misuse of p-values.
·
Consider the scenario:
o
A research paper claims a meaningful contribution to the
literature based on finding statistically significant relationships between
predictor and response variables. In the footnotes, you see the following
statement, “given this research was exploratory in nature, traditional levels
of significance to reject the null hypotheses were relaxed to the .10 level.”

1. DISCUSSION 1: Assignment and references on 1 separate
page (use APA7th Ed in-text & references).

Post your response to the
scenario in which you critically evaluate this footnote. As a reader/reviewer,
what response would you provide to the authors about this footnote?

ASSIGNMENT: Evaluating Significance of Findings

2. ASSIGNMENT 1:
Assignment and references on 2 pages (Use APA 7th ed in the in-text
& references). Use the attachment
Week 5 SCENARIOS to complete this assignment.

To prepare for this
Assignment:
·
Review the Week 5
Scenarios found in this week’s Learning Resources and select two of the four
scenarios for this Assignment.
·
For additional support,
review the Skill Builder: Evaluating P Values and the Skill
Builder: Statistical Power, which you can find by navigating back to your
Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the
left navigation pane.

For this Assignment:
Critically evaluate the
two scenarios you selected based upon the following points (USING SPSS database):
·
Critically evaluate the
sample size.
·
Critically evaluate the
statements for meaningfulness.
·
Critically evaluate the
statements for statistical significance.
·
Based on your
evaluation, provide an explanation of the implications for social change.
Required
readings:

1. Skill Builders:
·
Evaluating
P Values
·
Statistical
Power

2. Frankfort-Nachmias,
C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a
diverse society (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
·
Chapter 8, “Testing
Hypothesis: Assumptions of Statistical Hypothesis Testing” (pp. 241-242)

3. Wagner, III, W. E. (2020).
Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science
statistics (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
·
Chapter 6, “Testing
Hypotheses Using Means and Cross-Tabulation”

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