ABSTRACT
This chapter explores students how to analyze number-focused data. Qualitative scholars like words and descriptions. Quantitative researchers condense participant accounts to a number. Quantitative researchers condense participant accounts to a number. The chapter focuses on surveys and how students can use the numbers they get from those data. The simplest inferential statistics test is the correlation. A negative correlation means that as one variable increases, the other variable decreases in value. Keep in mind that good statistical analysis is about telling the story behind the numbers, and regression allows for that kind of complex storytelling. Relationships between variables can happen in two ways: positive or negative. A positive correlation means that the two variables move in the same direction.
