Research Design and Analysis

Welcome to SDS 290!

Who am I?

• Prof. Randi Garcia
• She/her pronouns
• My goals for this course
• Favorite animal: Hamsters!

Now it is your turn. But first, let's do a 2-minute free write

• On a peice of paper (or blank word-processing file).
• For 2 minutes, write about:
  • Your goals for this course,
  • What you hope to learn, and
  • Some fun things you'll do over J-term -PollEverywhere!

In the chat, introduce yourselves

• Name
• Pronouns (Add to your zoom name with ...)
• One goal for this course
• Favorite animal

• Course website at http://bit.ly/sds290interterm21
• Syllabus

• Can you assign experimental material to conditions?
• You've created those conditions
• If the material alredy comes in different “varieties”, then it's an observational study
  • People with different psychiatric illnesses
  • Different species of plants
• Sometimes one “study” will have both experimental and observational variables

Get in breakout groups of ~8 we will discuss.

As you participate in the experiment at the link below, remember:

• what you saw
• what you did
• the order in which it happened.

To participate, find the experiment link in the course schedule!! http://bit.ly/sds290interterm21

In your groups:

• Take turns describing what you saw/did.
• Your objective, as a group, is to describe the FULL experimental design.

Discussion questions:

• What were all of the possibilities? How do you think that was determined?
• Which conditions were distributed across people, and which within people?
• What do you think are the possible research questions answered by this study?