Methods: provides detailed information about your research study design. Your Methods section should include:
- include the statistical analyses that you ran, including descriptive statistics such as the mean and the median, and well as the Pearson r Correlation
- your use of SPSS software
Results: report the findings of your statistical analyses, written in the past tense, without bias or interpretation. Your Results section should:
- Focus on being concise and objective
- Organize your results around tables and graphs that summarize the results of your statistical analyses
- Include summary text that describes the results in your tables and figures
- Describe the trends in your data but do not interpret it
- Organize your key findings in a logical sequence, generally following your Methods section
- Don't omit relevant findings, even those that don't support your predictions
References List: a list of the sources you cited
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