Methods of Data Analysis: Exploring Behavioural Sciences- Examine if there are any relationships between fear of statistics, satisfaction with life, Singapore

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Question 1 (25 marks) a) Examine if there are any relationships between fear of statistics, satisfaction with life, and flourishing by describing the characteristics of each relationship and clearly presenting the correlation matrix in APA format. b) Explain which “fear of statistics” item you used in your analysis, i.e. item 7 or 8. c) Determine if flourishing predicts satisfaction with life.

Question 2 (25 marks) James wants to know if students from the psychology programmes differ in their satisfaction with life when compared with students from the other programmes and chooses to run the t-test. Explain if his choice of statistical test is correct. Run the appropriate analysis on PSPP/SPSS. Interpret the SPSS/PSPP results that you have generated and report your findings in APA format.

Question 3 (25 marks) Do students from the different tutorial groups differ in their fear of statistics? Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses in equation form and run your analysis in SPSS/PSPP. Interpret the SPSS/PSPP results that you have generated and report your findings in APA format.