RSCH Walden University Week 2 Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Discussion
To prepare for this Discussion:Review the Learning Resources for this week related to frequency distributions and graphic displays of data.Using the SPSS software, open the General Social Survey dataset found in this week’s Learning Resources.Next, create a figure or table from a few selected variables within the dataset. Finally, think about what is good about how the data are displayed in the figure or table you created and what is not so good.BY DAY 3Post your display of the table or figure you created and provide an explanation of why this would be the best way to display the data provided, include the General Social Survey Dataset’s mean of Age to verify the dataset you used.Be sure to support your Main Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.From professor DiscussionThe Discussion instructions ask you to generate “a figure or table from a few selected variables” (Laureate Education, n.d., para. 1). Please follow these revised instructions.Post only One figure or graph of One variable to the discussion. Also, please be sure you use the GSS data set and clearly indicate the variable used. Please include the name of the variable as it appears in the data set. Use the Variable View to select your variable. IfFor example, the variable entitled sex is the variable name and RESPONDENTS SEX is the variable label. The value labels are 1 (male) and 2 (female). You could write something like:Figure 1 shows a bar graph of the respondents sex (sex). Participants responded 1 (male) or 2 (female). Sex is a nominal variable. Notice the APA format for reporting the value labels for male and female. These are called scale anchors. You can read more about this formatting in your APA manual. Warning! Ensure the graph you select is appropriate for the level of measurement for your variable (nominal, ordinal, scale [interval or ratio]). The readings will help with this concept.For help with SPSS and generating graphs for this week’s discussion, refer to the video for SPSS. The data set they use is similar to our GSS data set – so you might find it beneficial to open SPSS, open the GSS data set, and follow along with the video. Remember you can stop and start the video as you find the variables he uses. One variable he used didn’t appear exactly the same in our data set. When he uses number of hours worked last week – you can use number of hours usually work a week (hrs2) and it will be very similar. You should also refer to the Wagner (2016) text for additional support.Hint: when he says to click a graph and drag it to Chart Gallery, you must left-click the mouse and hold it down while you drag it to Chart Gallery. Just clicking won’t do you any good. Click-hold-drag! :)Hint: to insert the image of your graph into the discussion boardCopying SPSS Output into Discussion BoardsThe best solution we’ve found is to select the graphs or tables from the SPSS Output using the snipping tool, and save them as JPG files. Then insert the JPG file into the discussion board. If you are not familiar with the snipping tool, here is a resource to help with that. It is pretty easy to pick up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL3h5xns6DMInsert graph into discussion board1– Begin your main post2 – Insert the JPEG file into your post by using the picture tab. The picture tab looks like this:Error! Filename not specified.Brief Jing Video Tutorial (no sound): http://www.screencast.com/t/oz3UXzlJ9I4
