What is the importance of statistical techniques?
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The answer should be in chapter 1 of your Statistics manual for the behavioral sciences (the help with homework forum is in the education section) :-)
Well without them we're just waving our hands and saying ya, when you hold the golf club this way you hit better - see, Jimmy hit better. With statistics, you actually measure in some meaningful way whether a thing caused a change or not. More accurately, you measure the likelihood that something caused the observed change.
Without statistics, every proposed cause and effect relationship is just someone's unsubstantiated opinion.
Statistical techniques is an important tool in our society. However, if you come across a research study and you have some questions about the reliability of the statistical results, research other studies on the subject. When I was doing my graduate studies I had a professor who use to teach Research Methods and he use to say: "remember there are lies, and then more lies and then there are statistics. (smile)
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