r/research

Hi everyone,

I’d really appreciate some advice about reporting power analysis in linear regression (psychology bachelor thesis).

I first used G*Power to estimate sample size with:

Linear multiple regression (fixed model, R² increase),f² = 0.15 (medium effect), Power = 0.90

After collecting data, I ran a sensitivity analysis (“compute required effect size”) using my actual sample size and predictors. It gave me f² = 0.08, meaning that’s the smallest effect my sample should be able to detect.

Is it okay to report this kind of post hoc sensitivity analysis in a paper? Or id it a bad practice?

I’m thinking of including it in the discussion to give context to the results, but I’m not sure how acceptable this is.

Thanks a lot!

I'm a medical student in a third world country, here we don't really have a "culture" of doing researches/studies even in college, and we only do one undergraduate study/research to be able to graduate.

I've always been fond of researching or at least the idea of it, and I want to build a good CV, and perhaps get into a speciality where I could participate in doing researches/studies more.

My question is where/how to start? I've seen many people recommend the book "The craft of research" so I plan on beginning with that, but then what? Do I ask a doctor/professor to help guide me or at least lead me to how even my study would be at least recognized within my college and get accreditation for it so i could add it to my cv or whatever?

idk

I am working on my final degree project regarding the representation of African American stereotypes in GTA: San Andreas and GTA V. My objectives include analyzing the representation of African American stereotypes through audiovisual narrative, as well as examining these representations through the interaction between narrative and gameplay (ludonarratives) to determine if they contribute to reproducing and reiterating stereotypes.

I am using an analytical model by Pérez Latorre with a ludonarrative and socio-semiotic approach (2017), which focuses on elements such as player actions, the representation of the fictional world, interactions with NPCs, and the game's rules and victory conditions.

However, I am not sure how to structure my theoretical framework. I’m not asking anyone to do it for me, but how would you structure it?

Hi! I'm currently on my 3rd year taking a bachelor's degree, and supposedly I'm now writing my Chapter 4 and 5, but I got stucked into transcription of the audio material as I do not know what comes next. I'm using Braun and Clarke for my thematic analysis, and even reading the steps, I'm still at lost. I'm waiting for our Research Professor to teach this part but he's always not in school, and our Final Defense is coming up (I think by next month), and I honestly want to finish this by April huhu.

Please I need some advice or anything that will help me to be on track.

I wrote a paper in the field of finmaths, can you help me find a journal which is free and takes about 6 months to approve and is respected and has indexing, my topic is "Insider Volatility Shocks and Hedge Efficiency: The Dose–Response Relationship in MVHR Degradation"

So, im a director of a research event. th clib president just told me to host a conference with the research projects that our club has (research club) we are all A-level students. most of them did not have any research experience. most of the team members feel like we should host this as a competition and open to all the other external schools and invite external prof/ judge for “review and connection”. In my opinion they only did this so that they can look better on your ECA and feel more achieving however from a research perspective I do not think this is the right move. I think it should only be a conference that held within schools for only school students. hear me out first I do not think that the research are original. they are mostly just patching work from here and there with no research gap n mostly just summarise content from different research papers. second of all they have no experience and most of them also did not contact any mentor or professors hence the levels are really unmatchedwith one or two team that has contacted professor successfully and actually obtained readings with proper guidance and technique. so all the problems are like unclear research structure, very weak and vague survey design, vague method and not original. If you were in my position would you host this as just a conference and open to only school members so students can have a platform to showcase their work or would you host this as a competition and invite external judges and students to gain connections and showcase their work to more students which I think would be quite a waste of time even for the external judges/ professors

Hi everyone, I am new to this group and I am looking for some adivce for my masters research. I am researching perceptions of urban forestry in order to better inform city policies to have location specific goals to address community identified needs and increase equity in access to urban tree benefits. In order to do this my best method option is to use questionnaires using likert scale options and a couple open ended questions to completely capture 'the whole picture'. I have done research before but only ever in a lab where my 'particpants' were hundreds of plants and i do not know what the steps are to actually distribute a questionnaire to ~2000 potential participants. I have an understanding of my sampling frame and some goal numbers to reach based off of a preliminary census data analysis but I do not know how to actually get addresses to mail this survey to and was wondering if anyone has any advice on how this can be done as my advising committee has not been very repsonsive lately.

Im hoping someone is able to help as I have been reading a lot of papers and many studies state how they hired a third party to distribute based on their sampling frame but I do not have the funding for that so any helkp would be appreciated!

TLDR: How to get lists of addresses to send my questionnaire to that can represent the local census data

Thank you to all who read or took the time to help give advice!

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well. Some background context: I'm a final year psychology undergraduate trying to apply for clinical psychology or social work masters, and I have 6 months to complete a self publication journal as I've missed the chance to complete a thesis with support from my university.

My professors have advised me to work on a meta analysis saying that is the easiest route, but honestly without any experience I don't really know what I should be expecting. I only know some really basic knowledge like I should be setting a goal as in why I would want to do this meta analysis and how it contributes to the field, read tons of literature, then combining it while citing empirical evidence proving that what I've analysed is according to sources, but I desperately need some concrete advice such as where to start and what to look out for. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!