Question

You want to see if the number of siblings an individual has affects one’s social skills. Propose a research design to study these variables (how to measure them) and what statistical analysis you would use to analyze the data. Be very specific and detailed.

Answer 1

Ans. To study the impact of number of siblings on one's social skills first we need to select population, let us suppose it to be employees of n companies with data collected from either of the siblings (if they are in the same company).

Then we have to choose the variables:

1. Number of siblings

2. Number of Skills(Out of):

a. Speaking

b. Sports

c. Writing

d. Negotiation

e. Art

f. Academics

g. Others.

We can plot the obtained data on a scatter plot and conduct regression analysis to check the dependency.