come in if you know how to use SPSS

Rationale

(state and support RQ’s and hypotheses)

Write about Natalie’s Second Chance, needing donations, standard request versus telling potential donators that even a penny will help, and how that will affect how much money Natalie’s will receive. 

Research Question 1: Will the average amount of donation differ in the the EPH versus the standard request conditions? Research Question 2: Will the condition to which participants are exposed (EPH vs. SR have an effect on the level of financial need they feel Natalie’s shelter is in).

Hypotheses

Hypothesis 1: A larger percentage of target individuals who receive a request for a charitable donation that includes and “Even a Penny Will Help” (EPH) strategy will donate in comparison to the individuals who receive only a standard request for a charitable donation.

Hypothesis 2: Target individuals given the EPH request will feel that the level of financial need for Natalie’s shelter is higher.

Hypothesis 3:

Hypothesis 4: Target individuals who have made a charitable donation previously will donate more money than those individuals who have never made a charitable donation before.

Methods

(descriptives for the people sampled, our project procedure & our an explanation of our variables and how we tested them) 

A total of 439 participants completed the survey. Of these participants, 240 (54.7%) were female, 194 (44.2%) were male, 2 (0.5%) were transgender, and 3  (0.7%) identified as other. The standard request was randomly provided to 216 of the 439 (49.2%) individuals, while 223 (50.8%) participants received the “Even a Dollar Will Help” request. The average age of the participants was 28.16, and the range was 18-87 years old. The race/ethnicity of the sample was 73.1% (n=321) White, 17.1% (n=75) Asian, 4.8% (n=21) Hispanic or Latino, 2.3% (n=10) Black or African American, 0.2% (n=1) Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0.2% (n=1) American Indian or Alaska Native, and 2.1% (n=9) other.

Results

(this will be the paragraphs in the format provided in the lectures and lab slides)

Research question 1 asked if the average amount of donation would differ in the Even a

Penny will Help versus the Standard Request conditions. An independent samples t-test was

conducted to compare request type in terms of average donation. Although the average

amount donated was lower for the EPH (M=9.43, SD=11.23) than for the standard request(M=15.89 ,SD=18.73) the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant,t(75)=-1.895 p=0.062 d= -0.37. In response to RQ1, the data indicate that the average amount of donation does not differ more than would be expected due to chance in the Even a Penny will Help versus the Standard Request conditions.

Discussion

(discuss results and put things into perspective,, discuss limitations on our study & wrap everything up)

Appendix A

(we have to put SPSS outputs for descriptives here)

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Appendix B

(SPSS outputs for hypothesis tests here)

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