Week 5 Discussion: Continue Your Discussion
This course uses a tool called Yellowdig to facilitate discussions. If you have not yet read the Week 1 Prepare 1: Introducing Yellowdig study, read that now to learn what Yellowdig is and how to use it.
Discussion Question
This week is all about proverbial apples and oranges.
Please post something to the discussion board related to the content covered this week. For each post, be succinct and professional. Do not create your post as a reply to the pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to create a new post.
Feel free to explore the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls, love or like a post, and so on.
Here are some ideas for your post to get you started:
Why can’t you compare apples to oranges? Why would it be important to match your intervention and control groups on certain characteristics in a research study to help with interpretation of the results? Give your post a hashtag in the body (e.g., #applestoranges).
Which outside resource (image, video, article) shows the danger of mismatched research methodology and data interpretation? Share the link within your post. What effect might this dissonance have on the impact of the research and its subject?
What about this week’s content is relevant to your own professional or academic career?
