Hi all,
I had a psychology stats exam yesterday and one question was:
'Present a hypothetical experimental question in which the main interest is the difference in the skew of the dependent variable for different experimental conditions.'
I understand this to mean that you have two or more experimental groups, and the skew of the DV in each group is expected to be different and you are testing this. For example you might have condition 1 where the skew is negative, and condition 2 in which skew is positive (but the means might be the same and thus don't indicate anything). I cannot for the life of me think of an experimental question that would produce this hypothesis that experimental conditions will differ on skew of the DV.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help you can offer!
I had a psychology stats exam yesterday and one question was:
'Present a hypothetical experimental question in which the main interest is the difference in the skew of the dependent variable for different experimental conditions.'
I understand this to mean that you have two or more experimental groups, and the skew of the DV in each group is expected to be different and you are testing this. For example you might have condition 1 where the skew is negative, and condition 2 in which skew is positive (but the means might be the same and thus don't indicate anything). I cannot for the life of me think of an experimental question that would produce this hypothesis that experimental conditions will differ on skew of the DV.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help you can offer!