ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the research question: does pronoun use vary significantly across different academic disciplines? The nature of this question is again a comparison between groups with three separate groups. As with t-tests, it is important that the groups are completely separate from one another. The chapter examines articles from the Journal of Modern History to represent the discipline of history. And Genome Research to represent the discipline of genetics since each of these has been ranked as among the top ten international research journals in their respective fields in recent years. The data discussed in this chapter is therefore three sets of research articles from three academic disciplines: history, genetics and philosophy. As with t-tests, ANOVA requires the data to fall into roughly normal distributions. The ANOVA allows assessing whether the two samples are drawn from a single population or represent counts drawn from three or more separate populations.
