LING 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.5: Standard Deviation, Three Steps, Experimental Psychology
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In most experiments it is bene cial to include ller items (i. e. , sentences that are not related to the research question) Informal judgment experiments of the sort that linguists carry out every day tend to be conducted on relatively few participants. Whereas formal judgment experiments tend to use samples of twenty or more. One of the most contentious aspects of judgment data is whether they should be collected from trained linguists versus naive speakers. On the other hand, professional linguists may provide a sort of expert knowledge that increases the reliability ,and possibly the sensitivity, of their judgments over non- linguists" judgments: interpreting judgment data. As in most of experimental psychology, the analysis of judgment data involves two steps: pre-processing, which covers operations performed prior to statistical tests, the statistical tests themselves. For a given participant p, calculate the mean and standard deviation of all of p"s judgments.
