Imagine we had a question: “Do men and women differ on X?” No matter what “X” is—height, empathy, knowledge of 13 th century Spanish history, or anything else—we know that any given man will be ...

Whatever study you choose to conduct, it will probably have a target population. The target population is the group of people who could be involved in your study. For example, if you wanted to do some ...

Empirical data is gathered through systematic experimentation and observation. We summarise and describe the nature of a dataset through descriptive statistics using charts and tables. We check the ...