project 3

PROJECT

t Competencies

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:

• interpret psychological data using quantitative and qualitative

methods

• Present psychological findings to academic and nonacademic

audiences

Scenario For this project, you will be creating a data brief. Developing the data brief

will challenge you to not only interpret data correctly, but then

communicate your findings to a mixed audience made up of members of the scientific community and the general public. Telling a persuasive and

accurate story from statistical findings is an important skill to add to your

data literacy toolbox.

Note: You do not need to perform any additional analyses or calculations.

You only need to interpret and report the analyses that have been

completed and create graphics as visual supplements for your data brief.

Imagine you work as a research assistant in Washington, DC, at the

Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is interested in issues

related to race, discrimination, and policing. Your team has been given data and output from chi-square tests, and you are tasked with communicating

the findings and possible implications directly to police departments.

However, all the work you do is public and thus available to the media and community members, as well as to nonprofit organizations. As you weave

together the story of this data, keep in mind that it will need to be written

for multiple audiences and tell an accurate and persuasive story.

Directions For this project, you will submit a data brief as a Word file. You will

complete your brief using the writing templates on this page and the topic

you selected in your Project Three Milestone assignment. Use the data set provided and the relevant contingency table to complete your

interpretation of the chi-square test.

Note: You will find contingency tables that relate to each topic in the Excel file (provided as individual tabs).

Your brief must be a minimum of 1–2 pages (not including graphs). Sources should be cited according to APA Style. For more details on how you’ll be

graded, refer to the Project Three Guidelines and Rubric page in

Brightspace.

Qualities of Your Data Brief Create a narrative based on communication best practices for a varied

audience. Your data brief should demonstrate the following:

1. Tells an accurate and persuasive story

2. Presents sufficient logic

3. Presents statistical findings to support claims