What is the point of a statistcal tool in research? How does it affect the gathered data?
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The point of statistics is to quantify uncertainty; putting a number on how likely it is that the difference or association you’re seeing in your data is truly there, or just a result of the inherent randomness of sampling and measuring.
Good research involves thinking about statistics *before* gathering data, to make sure you set things up in a way that will ultimately let you draw meaningful conclusions.
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