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Conformity Coursework Help:)

Im Doing A Replication Of Jenness Study Nd I Really Appreciate Some Help With The Results
Do I Have To Use Standard Deviation ?
Iv Done Everything Else?


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sorry i dont know what that study is but if its a famous one you try searching this website
http://www.holah.karoo.net/corestudies.htm
They have loadsa stuff on studies so you might be able to find out what he did with his results
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It depends upon your level of data. If you have nominal (counting) data, no you don't because you're merely saying how many people fell into each category. If it's ordinal (ranking) or interval (measuring) data, then yes you do, because the standard deviation will tell you how close your scores were to the mean (average) and also how 'spread out' (distributed) the scores are.

By the way, I am an A-level teacher so you can trust me :wink:

Hope this helps!
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PS. Hannah, the Jensen (1932) study looked at conformity (in a similiar way to Asch) by asking people to count how many beans there were in a jar. I did this as a class experiment using celebrations, which of course, my students loved and quickly ate! I'm surprised that you haven't heard of it as it should be mentioned in all of the good A-Level textbooks (e.g. Psychology for A-Level by Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum).

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