How Do I Social Science? 2: Descriptive Statistics & the Bell curve

In the second part of this series I discuss descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, significance/alpha levels and distributions, including skewed distributions as well as the dreaded normal curve or bell curve, which is apparently naughty now, for some reason I can't wrap my head around.

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Companion Book:

Keyton, J. (2015). Communication research: asking questions, finding answers. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

References

Becker, D. & Rindermann, H. (2016). The relationship between cross-national genetic distances and IQ-differences. Personality and Individual Differences 98: 300-310.

Deary, I. J., Irwing, P., Der, G., & Bates, T. C. (2007). Brother–sister differences in the g factor in intelligence: Analysis of full, opposite-sex siblings from the NLSY1979. Intelligence, 35(5), 451-456.

Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. American psychologist, 67(2), 130.

Rushton, J. P. (1996). Race, evolution, and behavior: A life history perspective. Transaction Publishers.

Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2005). Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability. Psychology, public policy, and law, 11(2), 235.

Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2010). Race and IQ: A theory-based review of the research in Richard Nisbett’s Intelligence and How to Get It. The Open Psychology Journal, 3(1), 9-35.

Strenze, T. (2007). Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research. Intelligence, 35(5), 401-426.

Sternberg, R. J. (Ed.). (2000). Handbook of intelligence. Cambridge University Press.

Sternberg, R. J., Grigorenko, E., & Bundy, D. A. (2001). The predictive value of IQ. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 47(1), 1-41.

Wai, J., Cacchio, M., Putallaz, M., & Makel, M. C. (2010). Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30year examination. Intelligence, 38(4), 412-423.

Weiss, L. G., Saklofske, D. H., Coalson, D., & Raiford, S. E. (Eds.). (2010). WAIS-IV clinical use and interpretation: Scientist-practitioner perspectives. Academic Press.

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Background Music: James Horner's Teaching Mathematics Again

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