By Day 5
Respond to at least one other colleague’s original post in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing question and provide insight into how you would answer your question and why.
- Ask a probing question and provide the foundation, or rationale, for the question.
- Expand on your colleague’s posting by offering a new perspective or insight.
- Agree with a colleague and offer additional (new) supporting information for consideration.
- Disagree with a colleague by respectfully discussing and supporting a different perspective.
Support your reply to a colleagues’ post with at least one reference (textbook or other scholarly, empirical resources). You may state your opinion and/or provide personal examples; however, you must also back up your assertions with evidence (including in-text citations) from the source and provide a reference.
Reflection
This course has provided me with a different perspective of what statistics is. As Heiman stated, “understanding statistics is necessary for comprehending other people’s research and for understanding your chosen field of study” (Heiman, 2015, p. 3). Over the past six weeks, my perception of statistics has changed. I learned that statistics are everywhere and that we can’t make assumptions. Every scenario requires a different test depending on what you are comparing. Some studies require a one-tailed test, a two-tailed test, Anova, and others. Sometimes we may have a perception of what we think will be the result but after performing the test you can end up with a different result and not what you expected.
Three ways I can apply what I learned in my personal and professional life is by collecting, analyzing and organizing any data before coming to conclusions. This is very important for any plan that I have in my life.
Applying what I learned in this course to social change is very important. In the “Expanding Our Understanding of Social Change report”, one of the features of social change that impacted me is Attitudes. According to the authors, “Humane ethics is a system of moral principles that guide human conduct with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions” (Callahan, et al., 2012, p. 6). Collecting data on emotional effects and then analyzing the data will help me come up with ways to help other people. Therefore, understanding the importance of conducting research will not only help me, but it would also help me help to make a change in society.
References
Callahan, D., Wilson, E. Birdsall, I., Estabrook-Fishinghawk, B., Carson, G., Ford, S., Ouzts, K., Yob, I. (2012). Expanding our understanding of social change: A report from the definition task force of the HLC special emphasis project. Minneapolis, MN: Walden University.
Heiman, G. (2015). Behavioral Sciences STAT (2nd ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage