Research methods- probability and significance

Question 1

What is the symbol for the probability of something happening?

Answer 1

p

Question 2

What is significance?

Answer 2

The idea of something being ‘trustworthy’.

Question 3

How would you test something to see if it’s ’trustworthy’?

Answer 3

Calculating whether the probability of having made a mistake, or results being to chance.

Question 4

What does the probability value have to be to be classed as ‘trustworthy’?

Answer 4

P is less than or equal to 0.05

Question 5

What does the probability value being less than or equal to 0.05 mean?

Answer 5

There’s a less than or equal to a 5% likelihood that the results of the research are due to chance.