SPSS Required Stats

1. Correlation

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b. I am using a two-tailed test because the critical region is going to have two parts. The Ho: no correlation against Ha: correlation. This all leads to needing a two-tailed test.

c. Testing the correlation between student extroversion and lecture extroversion showed a positive weak correlation. The factoring for this comes to r (428) =0.181, p<0.05. This means that as there is an increase in student extroversion there is an increase in students wanting extroversion in lecturers.

Testing the correlation between student agreeableness and lecture agreeableness showed a moderate correlation. The factoring for this comes to r (428) =0.312, p<0.05. This means that as there is an increase in student agreeableness leads to students wanting agreeableness in lecturers.

Part B

1. Research area of interest

My area of interest is in serial killers. There are multiple areas that I would like to look into ranging from killing being an actual addiction, such as smoking cigarettes is an addiction, to is the prison system actually trying to rehabilitate these killers that are in a class of their own, and while they will never get out, unless something extreme happens, they still deserve rehabilitation but I am more interested in if the serial killer’s personal opinion is that they are or are not being rehabilitated.

Originally set-up to reflect possible variables to be assessed…

Nominal: male or female

Ordinal: Serial killer’s urge to kill on a scale of 1-5

Interval: The # of documented kills attributed to the serial killer as assigned by law enforcement

Ratio: Actual # of kills the serial killer has committed, or that they are willing to admit to