Competencies
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
Interpret psychological data using quantitative and qualitative methods
Present psychological findings to academic and nonacademic audiences
Scenario
For this project, you will be creating a data brief. Developing the data brief will challenge you to not only interpret data correctly, but then communicate your findings to a mixed audience made up of members of the scientific community and the general public.
Telling a persuasive and accurate story from statistical findings is an important skill to add to your data literacy toolbox.
Note: You do not need to perform any additional analyses or calculations. You only need to interpret and report the analyses that have been completed and create graphics as visual supplements for your data brief.
Imagine you work as a research assistant in Washington, DC, at the Department of
Justice. The Department of Justice is interested in issues related to race, discrimination, and policing.
To eliminate the issue requires personal efforts because that is the only way all people will be treated equally by respecting one another.
Describe the key findings from your interpretation of the data for a general audience.
Your response should be about 2 to 4 sentences.
Summarize the background information for the scientific community. Your response
should be about 3 to 5 sentences.
Describe the major statistical findings for the scientific community. Your response
should be about 3 to 7 sentences.
