Each of the following sentences violates a basic rule of report writing. Indicate the relevant difficulty in each case.
a. "The scale was coded to assess optimism, or lack thereof, in the participants."
b. "Seven of the twenty-one participants were male, and fourteen of the twenty-one were female."
c. "To be significant, the p-value of the test had to be less than the alpha level of .05."
d. "The majority of students were between twenty and twenty-six years old."
e. "The professor required that we code the independent variables two different ways."
f. "Results of the correlational analysis are presented in Table A."
g. "The procedure in Experiment 2 was just about the same as in Experiment 1."