The funny thing is, although most of the reports of this study done by a doctoral student and presented at a conference said that men were more affected than women (based on these non-significant results), this failure to reject the null hypothesis is cited in at least one source as providing positive evidence that there are no differences between males and females on these issues. I can imagine someone writing an article to share this technique called, "The Advantage of Low Power Studies in Confirming Equality between Groups". Actually, the whole study with the online survey methodology, the small sample size and the questionable interpretation reminds me of studies done by my Research Methods undergrad students but at least they would have calculated the chi square results and not made anything out of a non-significant result.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479) 524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman -----Original Message----- From: David Epstein [mailto:da...@neverdave.com] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:03 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] "Childlessness hits men the hardest" (n = 16) Spotted on Google News: a university press release getting picked up as if it were science news. It's a survey with differences such as "8 out of 16 men" (50%) versus "14 out of 51 women" (27%). http://www.google.com/news?&q=%22robin+hadley%22&hl=en Well, you can chi-square the numbers yourself <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403071957.htm>. There is NOT EVEN ONE DIFFERENCE between men and women in the survey. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=24752 or send a blank email to leave-24752-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24758 or send a blank email to leave-24758-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
