ABSTRACT
You will have seen from the last chapter just how powerful and user-friendly SPSS is. It is precisely because of this that routine quantitative data analysis need not be the preserve of a small number of professionally trained statisticians but is now within the reach of all of us. This is undoubtedly one of the key strengths of SPSS but also perhaps its main weakness. The thing is that SPSS cannot think for itself. If you ask it to do something, it will do it regardless of whether your request makes any statistical sense or not. There is a real danger therefore that people can begin using SPSS and producing statistical output that looks really impressive even though they haven’t got a clue what they are doing and the output they are producing is utterly meaningless.
