Statistical Analysis

• turn human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into numbers to analyse
• Inferential Statistics
  • understand differences between groups
  • patterns among variables
• Effect Size
• Meta Analysis

Limits

• one-way causal thinking is an oversimplification
  • multicausality
    • phenomenon are caused by more than one factor
  • bidirectional influence
    • both causal parts are interrelated, effecting each other
    • x → y; y → x; x → y; y → x; …

Regression Line

• sw to ne → positive relation
• nw to se → negative relation
• w to e → no relation