A researcher wants to know what type of play equipment gets utilized the most (in seconds) at a park:
A researcher wants to know what type of play equipment gets utilized the most (in seconds) at a park: swings, slides, or bridges? The researcher observed the first 15 subjects at a park on a given day. The researcher used the first 5 subjects that utilized each piece of equipment and counted the number of seconds each subject spent on that piece of equipment. The following data was collected:
| Swings | Slides | Bridges |
| Subject 1: 121 seconds | Subject 1: 10 seconds | Subject 1: 12 seconds |
| Subject 2: 87 seconds | Subject 2: 17 seconds | Subject 2: 18 seconds |
| Subject 3: 96 seconds | Subject 3: 14 seconds | Subject 3: 15 seconds |
| Subject 4: 90 seconds | Subject 4: 13 seconds | Subject 4: 19 seconds |
| Subject 5: 65 seconds | Subject 5: 19 seconds | Subject 5: 13 seconds |
Research Question: What type of play equipment gets utilized the most (in seconds) at a park: swings, slides, or bridges?
Dependent variable: Time spent playing
Independent variable: Type of play equipment
Conditions of the independent variable: swings, slides, bridges
- Perform a ONE -WAY, BETWEEN SUBJECTS ANOVA on the data using the DEFINITIONAL formula
- Description of what you did in your research project (including operational definitions for your independent and dependent variables
- Description of the 5-steps of hypothesis testing you went through with your analysis
- APA (American Psychological Association) style statement of the results including the appropriate details for the inferential statistic(s) and appropriate descriptive statistics
- How to represent significant and non-significant results
- Interpretation of results
- Any limitations you are aware of in your project (confounding variable s )
- Graphic representation (table/figure)
- ANOVA Summary Table
- Step-by-step details of the descriptive and inferential statistics as you calculated them using definitional formulas
If you see any other necessary corrections in the data observed please let me know.
Deliverable: Word Document
