I thought that worksheet 7 questions were a lot of steps to go through but overall it wasn’t too difficult to understand. With the chi-square tests, there’s a lot of information on the outcomes. It was important for me to take my time on analyzing the data and look at exactly what the question is asking. I rushed on the first few questions and had to redo them because I just filled in the blank and I didn’t look at what information the question needed. I also needed help going through the check the boxes questions because they were very wordy, but after discussing them with COL Sanborn I was able to understand it which I think will help me when I take future quizzes or on worksheet 8.

Worksheet 6 was frustrating because, similarly to others, I understood how to run the data but the way the questions were worded made it difficult to understand what information they were asking for. The only thing I had trouble understanding was when it said “Does the 95% CI contain 0”. This wasn’t really talked about in the reading except for the fact that it correlates to rejecting (or not rejecting) the null hypothesis. One thing I liked about this worksheet was that there was a lot of information to gather from the data. It was interesting to me to see the outcomes of running the different T-tests.

When I first started the chapter I was worried it was going to be like chapter 4. After reading over the chapter I got a pretty good grasp of how to run the data. This usually doesn’t happen. I’m normally very confused at the end of the reading and the questions at the end help solidify the reading. I liked how in chapter 5 the questions at the end were similar to the data in the reading. It helped me to see the correlations in the data and understand what the data meant. It helped understanding chapter 4 while I went into chapter 5 because I felt like the information about doing the graphs were similar in both chapters.

For worksheet 4, I would say so far this is the hardest. Looking back at the other worksheets its easier to understand now, but worksheet 4 is difficult for different reasons. It wasn’t hard because of the analysis but all of the steps to make the bar charts, box plots, and line charts. I also didnt have a hard time finding the data for the questions but I did have a hard time understanding what pollock was asking and how he was framing the information. After discussing it with COL Sanborn in class it made more sense but it’s discouraging to not understand what the question is asking even though I have all of the answers right in front of me.