ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article, and begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt. The questions on the excerpts promote learning by requiring students to: interpret information in tables and figures, perform simple calculations to further their interpretations, critique data-reporting techniques, and evaluate procedures used to collect data. The questions in each exercise are divided into two parts: Factual Questions and Questions for Discussion. The factual questions require careful reading for details, while the discussion questions show that interpreting statistics is more than a mathematical exercise. If a chi-square test indicates that the comparison is not statistically significant, the OR of 1.32 can be interpreted as not being significantly greater than 1.00. When an odds ratio (OR) equals 1.00, it means the odds that something will happen to one group are equal to the odds that it will happen to another group.
