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Although we did a very brief check in class to see what the results were, the data needs to be checked
using the following steps:
1. A person who is not familiar with the hypotheses (with the expected results) needs to code the
data. This is to avoid any bias in coding the results.
2. While coding, need to ignore made-up words, repetitions. Objective data only. This is why we
sometimes use two coders in order to make sure the deletion isnt biased in some way
The coded data looks like this (99 in this case is do your best) :
target
round 1
round 2
round 3
16
16
16
16
99
99
16
99
16
16
target
round 1
round 2
round 3
99
16
99
99
99
16
99
16
99
Oneway
Descriptives
N
Round 1
Std. Deviation
Std. Error
Minimum
Maximum
Goal is 5
11
2.4545
1.21356
.36590
1.00
5.00
Goal is 9
11
2.8182
1.16775
.35209
1.00
5.00
Goal is 16
10
3.3000
1.70294
.53852
2.00
7.00
2.7778
1.39443
.46481
1.00
6.00
Total
41
2.8293
1.35835
.21214
1.00
7.00
Goal is 5
11
2.5455
.93420
.28167
1.00
4.00
Goal is 9
11
2.8182
1.53741
.46355
1.00
6.00
Goal is 16
10
4.4000
1.42984
.45216
2.00
7.00
4.1111
1.36423
.45474
3.00
6.00
41
3.4146
1.51617
.23679
1.00
7.00
Do your best
Round 3
Mean
Do your best
Total
ANOVA
Sum of Squares
Between Groups
Round 1
Round 3
df
Mean Square
3.786
1.262
Within Groups
70.019
37
1.892
Total
73.805
40
Between Groups
26.299
8.766
Within Groups
65.653
37
1.774
Total
91.951
40
Sig.
.667
.578
4.940
.006
Means Plots
The results
These results are actually very interesting.
For round one, the differences are not significant. It means that whatever differences you see,
they could be attributed to random chance. Still, theres an interesting pattern showing that
goal 16 is the highest. The groups performed much better in round 3 compared to round 1.
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For round 3, the differences between the groups are significant. This means that the differences
we see in the plot for round 3 are not random. The pattern shows that the conditions of goal 16
and do your best outperformed goal 5 and goal 9. The highest performing seemed to be the
goal 16 group.
Possible implications
It could be that the goal 16 didnt seem impossible to those who got it and that it created a strong
motivation. Perhaps an impossible goal could have been 50. In this experiment it seemed that setting a
goal that was too easy too away motivation more than a high goal gave motivation because we see the
goal 5 and the goal 9 as clearly being lower than do your best.
This means that for future experiments we should consider changing the following:
1. Changing the conditions to : goal 5 (easy), goal 16 (difficult but perceived achievable), goal 50
(impossible), and do your best (control condition).
2. Running more than 3 rounds. We saw that it could take time for people to get used to the the
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