Tag: Research
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How to Interpret Likert Scales: Midpoints, Means, Medians and Statistical Significance
Learn how to interpret Likert scale data: understand true midpoints, why medians are better than means, and how to test significance.
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Likert scales: Four things you may not know
If you use quantitative methods in your research project, you may want to read this first.
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Reporting data inaccurately: why, when and how to confidentialise data?
Research, we surely agree, is about finding the truth and accurately reporting it. In this post, however, I will talk about those cases when we might have to actually distort the truth while reporting on a research project. This is normally done in the interest of protecting research participants, and it is called ‘confidentialising’. In…
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Can You Take the Mean of Likert Scale Data? Ordinal vs Interval Explained
A lot of research, in applied linguistics and language education at least, relies on a recurring statistical mistake: averaging ordinal data, such as that produced by Likert scales. Here’s why you shouldn’t do it, and what you should do instead.
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Researching Multilingually
On May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was hosted by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to…
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On obtaining consent: can information manipulation be morally justified?
The latest issue of Research Ethics featured an article on the moral implications of manipulating information to obtain consent, which I thought was thought-provoking enough to warrant a blog entry. To clarify, manipulation should not be construed as deliberate falsification: rather, it refers to issues such as presentation and framing that can influence the potential…