So this week there were some definite Peaks and pitfalls for both SPSS Statistics and Thyne. I would like  to start with the peaks:

As I mentioned last week, I took AP statistics in high school, so I actually remember doing chi-square and measures of association. Obviously we didn’t do them using SPSS Statistics, so I think that this probably  made this chapter a lot  easier. In class when it was said this chapter was going to be very hard, but I was presently surprised that it wasn’t that bad. Also, I remember having to interpret the data then, so it was something that I had already done before. Pollock still does a very good job teaching the information so it is very easy to understand. Also, I realized in chapter 9 how cheesy Thyne  can be when he was going over the cross tabs he said, “Focus on one row at a time! Or, #onerowatatime. Or, ‘team one row’. Or whatever you kids are into nowadays.” (Thyne, 155) It had me laughing well I was reading.

Now for the pitfalls! Just like last week, I was annoyed with all the reading in Pollock and the lack of  charts, but I think the interpretation takes more explaining. Well doing the worksheet either canvas, or my computer was glitching and it would not let me click on the Sommer’d column of the chart, so I missed that whole row of answers. I was presently not surprised to find out at the end of question 1 that I could not find out what answers I got wrong and I only had one more attempt. Seemed like a wild goose chase, of like guess which one you got wrong. Lastly, I know that Thyne has a lot of good information, but it is so statistic and formula oriented he just looses me. If I had to calculate these things by hand than I think I would pay a lot more attention, but we are using a program that does it for you so it loses me. It does fill in some good information that you miss in Pollock sometimes though.