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From a chart to a research question

How to turn data and a chart into a question worth investigating, and when a comparison of groups or an association between two variables really tells you something.

7 tasks130 points in totalTask difficulty: 1 easy, 4 medium, 2 hard

A chart without context says nothing, and data without a question is just a table. This topic teaches you to go from a first look at the data to a question that can be investigated honestly: what type of question you are asking, how to compare two groups, how to describe the association between two variables, and everything you do not know from the data yet.

Tasks

  1. What type of question are you asking?

    choice10 pts
    research questionquestion types

  2. Total, or mean per day?

    choice15 pts
    comparing groupsmeantotal

  3. Boxes side by side

    choice15 pts
    comparing groupsbox plotmedian

  4. What a conclusion may claim

    choice15 pts
    research questionconclusioncause

  5. The four-fold agreement measure

    number15 pts
    association between two variablesagreement of directions

  6. Agreement of directions in pandas

    code30 pts
    pythonpandasassociation between two variableschange over time

  7. Formulate a research problem

    text30 pts
    research questionhypothesischart interpretation