Question

Write a research proposal on a topic of your choice or choose one of the below examples; outlining the following:

Research Topics : ·Does eating oatmeal reduce the level of bad cholesterol? The ways to study this question

1. Research Methodology (Important)

2. Collection of both qualitative and quantitative data; (important)

3. Analysis of data using appropriate tools and techniques (statistical or otherwise); (important)

Answer 1

I will proceed with my own example.

Here in my example i am trying to verify if the belief that people born on certain specific dates of a omnth have a strong /weak likeliness of wininng/or not winnig a Nobel prize.

To do so i took reference of date of birth of all nobel laurates over last 80 years.

Then i did statistical reasoning to arrive at result (hypothesis testing).It is shown below.

4 Which test statistics was used? We used the chi square test for hypothesis testing. We found out the chi square which is our test statistic. Where -expected value Σ¡_a. sum of the lth column Sum of the kth column N-total number After calculating the expected value, we will apply the following formula to calculate the value of the Chi Square test of Independence: Chi-Square test of Independence Observed value of two nominal variables Expected value of two nominal variables Based on the test sample the chi square statistic obtained was x2 4.92 with degree of freedom df 8 and p value 0.77 and Expected value 89.56 The level of significence used was 0.05 or (95 % confidence level) Based on the test sample the chi square statistic obtained was 5 What level of significance was used? 6 What were the calculated results? x2 4.92 with degree of freedom df 8 and p value 0.77 and Expected value 89.56

7 What statistical conclusion was reached? The chi square statistic value was calculated with the chi square critical at df -8 and at 0.05 levels.The two chi square values were compared and it was observed that the chi square calculated (4.92) was higher than critical chi square (2.73) at 8 What was the experimental conclusion? We reject the alternate hypothesis and confirm the null hypothesis that there is no relationship between birth number and proficiency. 9What, if any, future research was suggested? This study has one major limitation. It is possible that differences that separate Nobel Prize winners from everyone else, and the differences that distinguish between different categories of winners are not captured by the birth number. This study examined only one claim of numerology and, perhaps, there is some other numerological construct that would work, or perhaps birth number might predict some other human distinction. This study cannot rule out that possibility. What we can say is that this investigation provides no positive evidence for numerology.