1 .		You are a researcher interested in whether there is a difference in recovery rates between surgical patients who are released shortly after their surgery and patients who spend more time in the hospital. Address the following issues from the "ten commandments" of data collection as you plan this project. a. What type of data will you collect? b. Where will you find your participants? c. Design a data collection form. d. Imagine that you have assistants to help you transfer your data from the original records to data sheets. What special instructions might you need to give them?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.
2 .		You come into your History class anxious to find out how well you did on the last exam. After going over the answers, the instructor tells the class that the mean on the exam was 75% and the standard deviation was 2.92. He then says "I grade on a curve, the top 10% of the class will receive As, the next 25% will receive Bs, the next 30% will receive Cs, and the next 25% will receive Ds. Below that is failing." Your friend in the next seat, who unfortunately is not a psychology major, leans over and whispers to you: "I got a 78 out of 100. So what’s my grade?" Write your friend a short note explaining his grade to him.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.