Lab 12: Results Section—
Objectives for Lab 12:
- Restate your hypotheses
- Test your hypotheses with the appropriate statistic
- Run a t-test in SPSS
- Run a correlation in SPSS
Outline for Results Section
Read and complete this outline prior to starting the lab. You may write in fragments (words, phrases) or in complete sentences. Please note that thinking about paper construction and outlining your thoughts will aid in writing each section of your lab report, so take advantage of this process!
Restate your group difference hypothesis
- “It was hypothesized…”
Report your results
- Describe the relationship between your two variables of interest.
- Report your statistics correctly.
- If you did not find statistically significant results…
- You are done. Stop here.
- If you found statistically significant results…
- Follow up with descriptive information elaborating further
- Follow up with a figure “showing” those results and make reference to it (e.g., “As seen in Figure 1…”).
Restate your correlational hypothesis
- “It was hypothesized…”
Report your results
- Describe the relationship between your two variables of interest.
- Report your statistics correctly.
- If you did not find statistically significant results…
- You are done. Stop here.
- If you found statistically significant results…
- Follow up with descriptive information elaborating further
- Follow up with a figure “showing” those results and make reference to it (e.g., “As seen in Figure 1…”).
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