PSYC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jargon, Bar Chart
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Lecture: where he defends the course (what we will get out of it) Lies are lies of fact : meaning that people could be posting potentially factual things but the statistics are messed up or the testing subject was different from what was stated in the research hypothesis. Damn lies: lies happen when data is produced just right to give the desired results. Lies with sampling: if the sample is not representing the population, then they"re not actually lying. Statistical lies: incorrect/ inaccurate ways to present data. Don"t cheat on the actual numbers, but how they get the numbers (how the numbers are initially calculated. As much as statements take the worst score of one thing and the best score from the other and that is the lie because that isn"t a fair comparison. Ex: bar graph comparing two different studies on the same hypothesis. One graph is presented with the scale: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60.
