Practice Exercises: Taking Chances and People Research
Overview
These exercises are meant to provide you with practice and application of the various concepts you will be studying each week. Practice will help solidify these statistical concepts in a way that simply reading about them cannot.
Instructions
Using your O’Sullivan readings (Chapters 6-7), respond to the following:
In 1-2 paragraphs, discuss specific challenges associated with “people” research.
Practically, how can these challenges be worked around or avoided?
Complete the following exercises from your Salkind text. None of the questions this week require the use of SPSS. Save all of your work as one single Word file and upload it for grading. Show your work when required.
Chapter 7, “Time to Practice” questions 3, 5, and 6
Chapter 8, “Time to Practice” questions 1, 5, and 9
Course References:
O’Sullivan, E., Rassel, G. R., & Taliaferro, J. D. V. (2011). Practical research methods for
nonprofit and public administrators. Longman.
Salkind, N. J., & Frey, B. B. (2020). Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics (7th
ed.). Sage.
