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Sign Test Activity Worksheet

This document discusses how to conduct a sign test for inferential statistics. It is a 5 step process: 1) State the hypotheses, including a one-tailed operational hypothesis for an extra sensory perception experiment. 2) Record the data from pairs of trials with and without meditation and determine the positive or negative signs. 3) Find the critical value of N. 4) Decide whether to accept or reject the hypothesis based on whether the test statistic S is greater than, less than, or equal to the critical value. Then write a statement of the results.

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Sign Test Activity Worksheet

This document discusses how to conduct a sign test for inferential statistics. It is a 5 step process: 1) State the hypotheses, including a one-tailed operational hypothesis for an extra sensory perception experiment. 2) Record the data from pairs of trials with and without meditation and determine the positive or negative signs. 3) Find the critical value of N. 4) Decide whether to accept or reject the hypothesis based on whether the test statistic S is greater than, less than, or equal to the critical value. Then write a statement of the results.

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Inferential statistics: The Sign Test

Recap: Why do we use inferential tests?


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What factors would determine use a sign test?


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How do we do a sign test? There are 5 steps to follow……

1) STATE THE HYPOTHESES


a) Can you write a one tailed operationalised hypothesis for the Extra Sensory Perception
experiment?
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b) Null Hypothesis

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Now carry out the experiment using a REPEATED MEASURES design
Trial 1 Trial
2-(meditation)
Hit
tally
Miss
tally

2) RECORD THE DATA AND WORK OUT THE (+\-) SIGN.

ESP ESP Differen +\-/=


Trial 1 Trial 2 ce
Pair 1
Pair 2
Pair 3
Pair 4
pair5
Pair 6
3) FIND THE CRITICAL (N) VALUE OF S

4) Decide whether to accept or reject our hypothesis and write a statement


of results (delete as appropriate)

Our S value of ______ was bigger/smaller/equal to the critical value of


________. Where N =______. This means that our result is/is not significant.

There is a 5%/95% possibility that the IV did not affect the DV.

This means that we can accept/reject our


experimental (one-tailed) hypothesis as
the probability of our results being due
to chance is high/low.
So meditation does/does not give us
Extra Sensory Perception.

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