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HowdoIreporta1waybetweensubjectsANOVAinAPAstyle?
HowdoIreporta1waybetweensubjectsANOVAinAPAstyle?
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Threeorfourthingstoreport
Youwillbereportingthreeorfourthings,dependingonwhetheryoufindasignificantresultforyour1WayBetwee
SubjectsANOVA
1.Testtypeanduse
Youwanttotellyourreaderwhattypeofanalysisyouconducted.Thiswillhelpyourreadermakesenseofyour
results.Youalsowanttotellyourreaderwhythisparticularanalysiswasused.Whatdidyouranalysistestfor?
Example
Youcanreportdatafromyourownexperimentsbyusingthetemplatebelow.
AonewaybetweensubjectsANOVAwasconductedtocomparetheeffectof(IV)______________on
(DV)_______________in_________________,
__________________,and__________________conditions.
Ifwewerereportingdataforourexample,wemightwriteasentencelikethis.
AonewaybetweensubjectsANOVAwasconductedtocomparetheeffectofsugaronmemoryforwordsin
sugar,alittlesugarandnosugarconditions.
2.Significantdifferencesbetweenconditions
Youwanttotellyourreaderwhetherornottherewasasignificantdifferencebetweenconditionmeans.Youcan
reportdatafromyourownexperimentsbyusingthetemplatebelow.
Therewasasignificant(notasignificant)effectofIV____________onDV______________atthep<.05level
forthethreeconditions[F(___,___)=___,p=____].
JustfillintheblanksbyusingtheSPSSoutput
Letsfillinthevalues.Youarereportingthedegreesoffreedom(df),theFvalue(F)andtheSig.value(often
referredtoasthepvalue).
Oncetheblanksarefull
Youhaveasentencethatlooksveryscientificbutwasactuallyverysimpletoproduce.
Therewasasignificanteffectofamountofsugaronwordsrememberedatthep<.05levelforthethreeconditions
[F(2,12)=4.94,p=0.027].
3.Onlyifresultoftestwassignificant,reportresultsofposthoctests
Inthepreviouschapteroninterpretation,youlearnedthatthesignificancevaluegeneratedina1WayBetween
SubjectsANOVAdoesnttellyoueverything.Ifyoufindasignificanteffectusingthistypeoftest,youcanconclude
thatthereisasignificantdifferencebetweensomeoftheconditionsinyourexperiment.However,youwillnotknow
wherethiseffectexists.Thesignificantdifferencecouldbebetweenanyoralloftheconditionsinyourexperiment.
Inthepreviouschapter,youlearnedthattodeterminewheresignificanceexistsyouneedtoconductaposthoc
testtocompareeachconditionwithallotherconditions.IfyouhaveanIVwith3levels,liketheoneinthis
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HowdoIreporta1waybetweensubjectsANOVAinAPAstyle?
example,youwouldneedtoconductandreporttheresultsofaposthoctesttoreportwhichconditionsare
significantlydifferentfromwhichotherconditions.
Example
Becausewehavefoundastatisticallysignificantresultinthisexample,weneededtocomputeaposthoctest.We
selectedtheTukeyposthoctest.Thistestisdesignedtocompareeachofourconditionstoeveryotherconditions.
ThistestwillcomparetheSugarandNoSugarconditions.ItwillalsocomparetheAlittlesugarandNoSugar
conditions.ItwillalsocomparetheALittleSugarandSugarconditions.TheresultsoftheTukeyposthocmustbe
reportedifyoufindasignificanteffectforyouroverallANOVA.
YoucanusethefollowingtemplatetoreporttheresultsofyourTukeyposthoctest.Justfillinthemeansand
standarddeviationvaluesforeachcondition.TheyarelocatedinyourDescriptivesbox.
Ifyouusedthistemplatewithourexample,youwouldendupwithasentencethatlookssomethinglikethis.
PosthoccomparisonsusingtheTukeyHSDtestindicatedthatthemeanscoreforthesugarcondition(M=4.20,
SD=1.30)wassignificantlydifferentthanthenosugarcondition(M=2.20,SD=0.84).However,thealittlesugar
condition(M=3.60,SD=0.89)didnotsignificantlydifferfromthesugarandnosugarconditions.
4.Reportyourresultsinwordsthatpeoplecanunderstand
Sinceitmightbehardforsomeonetofigureoutwhatthatsentencemeansorhowitrelatestoyourexperiment,
youwanttobrieflyrecapinwordsthatpeoplecanunderstand.Trytoimaginetryingtoexplainyourresultsto
someonewhoisnotfamiliarwithscience.Inonesentence,explainyourresultsineasytounderstandlanguage.
Example
Youmightwritesomethinglikethisforourexample.
Takentogether,theseresultssuggestthathighlevelsofsugarreallydohaveaneffectonmemoryforwords.
Specifically,ourresultssuggestthatwhenhumansconsumehighlevelsofsugar,theyremembermorewords.
However,itshouldbenotedthatsugarlevelmustbehighinordertoseeaneffect.Mediumsugarlevelsdonot
appeartosignificantlyincreasewordmemory.
Thissentenceissomucheasiertounderstandthanthescientificonewithallofthenumbersinit.
Letsseehowthislooksalltogether
Whenyouputthethreemaincomponentstogether,resultslooksomethinglikethis.
AonewaybetweensubjectsANOVAwasconductedtocomparetheeffectofsugaronmemoryforwordsin
sugar,alittlesugarandnosugarconditions.Therewasasignificanteffectofamountofsugaronwords
rememberedatthep<.05levelforthethreeconditions[F(2,12)=4.94,p=0.027].Posthoccomparisonsusing
theTukeyHSDtestindicatedthatthemeanscoreforthesugarcondition(M=4.20,SD=1.30)wassignificantly
differentthanthenosugarcondition(M=2.20,SD=0.84).However,thealittlesugarcondition(M=3.60,SD=
0.89)didnotsignificantlydifferfromthesugarandnosugarconditions.Takentogether,theseresultssuggestthat
highlevelsofsugarreallydohaveaneffectonmemoryforwords.Specifically,ourresultssuggestthatwhen
humansconsumehighlevelsofsugar,theyremembermorewords.However,itshouldbenotedthatsugarlevel
mustbehighinordertoseeaneffect.Mediumsugarlevelsdonotappeartosignificantlyincreasewordmemory.
Looksprettycomplicatedbutitissimplewhenyouknowhowtowriteeachpart.
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