Question:

When appropriate, be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the reading(s) and/or video program(s).

To prepare for this Discussion:

o Think about how you have learned about a variety of statistical techniques and their application to research in this course.

o Bring to mind a research question that interests you, or a current event that utilizes statistics to present results, that you can use as an example for this Discussion. State the research question or the current event and results. (business, psychology or related field.)

o Based on what you have learned, and using your example, how do you believe statistics can enrich and represent the results of a study? How can statistics be used to misrepresent the results of a study?

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 your example, a description of how you believe statistics can enrich and represent the results of a study , and an explanation of how statistics can be used to misrepresent the results of a study.