Article Critique Description
For this second part of the assignment you will need to locate an article (preferably
from your own field of study-Psychology) using one of the topics covered in this
class (One-Way ANOVA, Factorial ANOVA, ANCOVA, Repeated Measures, or
Kruskall Wallis).
You will need to read the article paying close attention to the methods used and
conclusions drawn. You will then turn in a 1-3pg write-up describing briefly the
question(s) under study, the methods used and the conclusions drawn. Then I want
you to discuss the methods and conclusions critically based on what you have
learned about these methods in class. Were the conclusions drawn justified? Was
their choice of statistical method justified? Can you think of any confounding
variables? How confident are you in their results? Can you think of any other
way they might have analyzed the data? Etc.
Keep in mind, many articles may report results of several different analyses. If
you find a paper that does one of the methods we have studied and then others that
we have not you may still use the paper. Just concentrate your write up on the
methods that we covered in class.
