RI update

Since my last post back in October, most of you are well underway with the final RI now.

Some of you completed the practice RI, some didn't; if you did then hopefully it was enjoyable and useful practice, but either way it is time to move on!

Things to be thinking about:

• If you have not already gathered your RI data, this is your top priority. Of course, you can't start until you have prepared all task meterials, consent forms, instructions etc, but this should not take long, especially if you split these jobs among your group.
• Background research. The introduction section of your write-up needs to show a good, broad knowledge of background research, so get reading!
• Analyse the data. Strictly speaking, this should be done individually. As you are all doing experiments, it should be quite easy - mean, mode, median, range and standard deviation for each condition, plus a graph, probably comparing the means.
• When the above tasks are done, you should be able to write up your first draft quite easily. This is due in after the February week, but I'm willing to look over your work sooner if you wish.

I can't emphasise enough how important it is to keep on top of the RI and not be rushing at the last minute. I will post more suggestions for your write-ups in due course.