PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Descriptive Statistics, T-Shirt, Scatter Plot

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: Raymond A Mar

Document Summary

Questionable research practices fabrication failure to replicate research findings. All of these inflate type i error --- false positive; when its said there is an effect when there isnt. Scientific fraud to falsify or manipulate data can happen by: Design a study that encourages people to behave in certain ways -- demand characteristic. Coding data in a way that supports your hypothesis -- introduce bias. Manufacture a co-author -- extreme case catching/preventing fraud. Posting data/statistical techniques if you have a large data set with a large amount of participants and responses and there isnt any missing data = suspicious b/c no data is perfect. People who engage in scientific fraud do not have an attack of conscious = will not feel guilty and come forward. Tend to get caught by their people fraud happens in all sciences there is an intent to deceive. Inappropriate methods increases showing evidence for something that doesnt exist.