Chapter 15: Reporting & Reviewing
[15a] Reporting Results
Topics
- Where the results section sits among a paper’s goals
- What to report for each model, and what readers cannot reconstruct without it
- Tables and figures that carry the result rather than repeat it
Readings
- “Multiple Regression” — Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Slides
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Assignment
[15b] Reviewing Claims
NoteComing soon
This lecture is planned but not yet written. The outline below shows what it is intended to cover.
Topics
- Checking a reported test for internal consistency (statistic, df, and p must agree)
- Recovering effect sizes and confidence intervals from what was reported
- Detecting impossible summary statistics from means, SDs, and sample sizes
- Reading a results section for what is missing rather than what is wrong
- Writing a statistical review that is specific and actionable
This is the reviewing half of the chapter, and it is deliberately a statistical skill rather than a methodological one: everything above can be checked from the numbers a paper already reports, without access to the data.