PSYC 1000 Lecture 1: PSYC - Sept 15- correlations and basic statistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

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Inferential statistics ( the importance of p values. Experiment done in class there was a correlation between height and shoe size: correlational designs does not indicate causation, goal is to determine if an association between variables exists! Shoe size, height & doing things on the spur of the moment: control over any variables ? if nothing was manipulated it cant have been an experiment. No correlation between shoe size and whether people like to do things in the spur of the moment correlation is just whether or not things are related to each other. A third factor could underlie both stress and illness influencing both, something like. Poverty causes stress poverty causes illness. Ud think by the titles that these seem like experiments, but these are really all using correlational evidence to make a claim that isn(cid:495)t necessarily true . (cid:498)family meals curb eating disorders(cid:499)-