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Answering Research Questions Without Calculating The Mean, Guillermo J. Campitelli
Answering Research Questions Without Calculating The Mean, Guillermo J. Campitelli
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
In an important theoretical article Speelman and McGann (2013) indicated that psychological researchers tend to use statistical procedures that involve calculating the mean of a variable in an uncritical manner. A typical procedure in psychological research consists of calculating the mean of some dependent variable in two or more samples and to present those means as summaries of the samples. The next step is to use some statistical technique (e.g., t -test, ANOVA) in order to be able to determine the probability of finding the observed differences between means in those samples given that the difference between the means of …