Assignment
There will be one assignment in this course. The name of the assignment is Statistics in the Media.
For those students that need help with proper APA in text citation and references, please see the following link: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. Additional APA Style links and documents will be posted on the Class online site. Also, see www.refworks.com - this source is available free to FIU students and will assist you in formatting references properly in APA and other formats. An additional source for APA Style is https://bruteforcestudyguide.com/essaywriting/apastyle.html
The prompt is as follows for the assignment: Identify an example of a statistical research finding in a mainstream media outlet (newspaper, magazine, broadcast television, etc.) and then locate the actual study or peer-reviewed journal article that served as the basis of that media report. For help accessing scholarly resources, please visit library.fiu.edu.
Based on the information provided in the mainstream media report and the original research study, please answer the questions below:
1. The research questions and hypotheses
2. The independent and dependent variable(s).
3. Describe the overall design of the study (sample size, methodology, etc.).
4. Summarize and evaluate the conclusion of the study author(s).
5. Identify any pertinent information regarding the actual study that was excluded from the mainstream media report