Worksheet 3 was by far the hardest (so far) for two reasons. 1) because there were many different factions that we were using. We learned recoding, visual binning, and using compute all in one lesson. I think the hardest part was that I didn’t really understand the difference between recoding into same/different variables at first. 2) although the book is good at step by step instructions on most things, the way that the questions in the exercises are worded makes it difficult to understand what it’s asking. Most of the time I overthink the questions because I don’t know what the question is asking then I end up doing twice the work that I needed to do, which is frustrating. Overall, I thought this lesson was challenging but the one concept that I genuinely understood was visual binning. It made running frequencies easier and allowed me to understand the data better.

I was originally pretty frustrated working on worksheet 2 but then once we went over it in class it made much more sense. It’s the same actions just with different data sets. I felt much more comfortable towards the end of worksheet 2 because I was doing the same actions in SPSS over and over so that I could do it without pollock walking me through it anymore. The textbook is really helpful at the beginning stages of each worksheet because pollock walks you through every step with pictures. I find it helpful to try and do the end last few problems on each worksheet without the help of the book to make sure I understand exactly what pollock was trying to get across in the book. Practice is very necessary to do well in this class and the more worksheets I do, the more comfortable I am with SPSS.