Question

Demi was looking over a journal article published in March, 2018 about attiudes about drug usage. She found this cross-sectional study looking at attitudes about drug use across different age groups. She came across this statistic, F(6,832) = 112.67, p <0.05.

This study was_____?

a. A naturalistic observation

b. A correlation

c. A quasi-experiment

d. An experiment

e. A meta-analysis

2. The number of participants in this study was _______

a. 7

b. 833

c. 113

d. 0.05

e. none of the above

Given the results, would you expect a priori pairwise comparisons?

a. Yes, there would be 6 of them because the results were significant.

b. Yes, there would be 21 of them because there was a hypothesis.

c. No, because there was no hyothesis.

d. No, because there the test was not significant

e. No, because the test was not significant

Looking for articles in the references to ______ will likely get you _____ articles.

a. Tree forward; many

b. Tree backward,many

c. Tree forward, near zero

d. tree backward, near zero

e. None of the avaible answers

For the statistic that was referred above, what kind of graph should we expect to see (a.k.a., the best graph to use)?

a. Pie chart

b. Histogram

c. Scatterplot

d. Bar graphs

e. None of the available answers

Answer 1

1. The correct answer is Option C. This study was a quasi-experiment.

2. The correct answer is Option E. The number of participants in this study was 839 (none of the above).

3. The correct answer is Option C. No, we would expect a priori pairwise comparisons because there was no hypothesis.

4. The correct answer is Option B. Looking for articles in the references to tree backwards will likely get you many articles.

Please post the other question separately as we are supposed to answer just one question or four subparts of a question.