Directions:

Students will be provided with a data set and asked to respond to the following: "tell me everything interesting about these data." All reasoning and conclusions must be explained and supported through references to specific statistical procedures and results. You will be judged on the quality, clarity, and completeness of your choices, analyses, and presentation.

The essay must include the following components:

1. A clear hypothesis (or set of related hypotheses) that is defensible and testable, given the available data. This includes identifying each variable, discussing how they are measured and constructed, and how the student hypothesizes their relations.
2. Calculation and discussion of the descriptive statistics, and direct, part and partial correlations (when relevant), for the chosen variables.
3. Application of more than one advanced statistical technique (regression or ANOVA variants), including a discussion of effect size and statistical significance), and a comparison of those results.
4. Analysis of statistical significance for all relevant statistics. Discuss the prospects for generalization from these data.
5. Critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the data and their chosen analyses.
6. Discussion of the practical implications of their findings for real people and policies. Explain how these data might be used, and by whom.
7. Suggestions for future data collection and analysis that could advance our understanding of their research question beyond what is available through the current data.

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Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 10 pages, 836 words and 2 charts.
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