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Week 8 Understanding Results

Week 8 Understanding Results

Q Week 8 Forum Question In a seamless posting, please incorporate the following questions into your initial postings: Discuss descriptive and inferential statistics in a quantitative study and why in a qualitative study this is not an issue. Also, discuss what a consumer of research should know about (p values) pertaining to quantitative research finding. Student expectations for Forum questions: Your initial Forum posts require a minimum of a 500 word substantive response. All follow-up responses (minimum of 2) should require 250-300 words. A total of three posting is necessary to have completed the bare minimum amount of forum work each week. Original responses to the Forum group question need to be substantial and significant supported by at least one additional scholarly reference that goes beyond the readings.Students should be using the APUS Online Library to search for peer-reviewed journal articles that help support their argument. The in-text citation and references will be formatted in APA Style. Your original posting should be posted as a response to the Forum question. Please be sure to use your own words; meet the deliverable length; support your main post (in-text citations AND list of references); use paragraphs in your main post to organize your points and make it more reader-friendly; and post three time per week. Please avoid “i” … etc and be sure to start each new sentence with a capital letter. All original response will be posted no later than Thursday evening 11:55 PM EST the week of the Forum question. This allows time for others to respond to your posting. Students will also be required to respond to at least two (2) other students posting with significant comments that demonstrate critical thinking by asking additional questions or adding to the body of knowledge started. If you argue, controversial issues use a reference to support your argument that adds credibility to your position. Your response to your peers work should be engaging and informative with good substance. Your responses should contribute in a meaningful way to helping advance our knowledge of the topics the class explores. There is help with proper APA Style formatting in the lessons and resource sections of the electronic classroom, which can be found on the menu bar on the course homepage. Your responses are due no later than Sunday 11:55 PM EST. All postings should contribute and advance the class knowledge of the course themes. Students are encouraged to "get out of the comfort zones" when making their arguments. The reason behind this activity allows students to analyze work from many different perspectives allowing the critical thinking process to grow. If you always stay in your comfort zone, you are not accepting of new ideas and concepts. Feel free to explore your theories and test them on the battlefield of peer review. Just make sure to include a scholarly reference to help support your argument.

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There can be the observance of the arising of specific patterns from the obtainment of quantitative data in case of descriptive statistics. There can also be the observance of the condensing of quantitative data in a specific manner so as to ensure that there is assistance provided in data analysis through descriptive statistics. There is a detailed description provided along with assistance to show adequate quantitative data in case of descriptive statistics. The specific characteristics of descriptive statistics differentiating it from other types of statistics is that conclusions cannot be made by a researcher (using descriptive statistics) beyond the scope of the obtained quantitative data (Malec, 2018).