12.2 Critiquing past students' reports 1
The extracts below are from an actual student Project Report. Critique these extracts, and suggest better ways of communicating the information.
From a study comparing the mean distance an iron golf club and a wooden golf club can hit the ball:
- Research question: For casual golfers, will using a metal club rather than a wooden club result in the ball travelling a further distance?
- Summaries: The paired means are different with the iron golf club being moderately higher than the wooden club
- Results (1): The 95% CI for the difference in distance in metres (wooden verse iron) differes from 34.74 -- 43.25 further for shots with the Iron
- Results (2): Very strong evidence exists in the paired sample (paired t=18.406; n=50; two tailed; P=0.000) of a population mean difference between the wooden and iron golf clubs...