Activity D: Research

Activity D focuses on research in the wild. Your main focus here is producing a well-presented, professional document.

This activity explores research. You have an Posit Cloud template for this!

Setup

Find and read a quantitative research article from a field that you find interesting. This article can later be used in your Final Project if you’re forward-thinking, so pick something relevant. (That is, perhaps look through the tidytuesday data set options and try to align your article choice with what you want to analyze.)

Finding an Article

While we go over this in class, here is a very quick primer for finding an article to use.

  1. Choose Academic Search Ultimate or Google Scholar from the list of available databases.
  2. Search for a topic that interests you. (Again, connecting this to the final project is a good use of your time.)
  3. Scan through the document to see what statistical tests and methodologies are used to determine if the article will allow you to fulfill the steps to completion, below.

Steps to Completion

Complete using the Activity on Posit Cloud. Upload to the LMS one single PDF, HTML and QMD file. It should include the following content, plus a copy of the article you chose.

The article citation

This must be in APA format and include the article abstract. It should look something like this:

Strandbrink, P. (2020). The Anatomy of Frank and Stein. An Ontological Exploration of Cyborg Identity, Culture, and Education. New Bioethics, 26(3), 210–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2020.1796259

This contribution aims to unpack the ontological nexus of cyborg identity and culture. It highlights a set of core assumptions driving its operations that merit critical attention as cyborgic and AI discourses continue to unfold and penetrate societies deeper, ultimately questioning the normative and conceptual logic and social distribution of these core assumptions.

The actual markdown for the citation and abstract above is:

Strandbrink, P. (2020). The Anatomy of Frank and Stein. An Ontological Exploration of Cyborg Identity, Culture, and Education. *New Bioethics*, *26*(3), 210–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2020.1796259

>This contribution aims to unpack the ontological nexus of cyborg identity and culture. It highlights a set of core assumptions driving its operations that merit critical attention as cyborgic and AI discourses continue to unfold and penetrate societies deeper, ultimately questioning the normative and conceptual logic and social distribution of these core assumptions.

Research methods and study design

Summarize these in your own words! What kinds of methods and design choices have we covered in class that you see in your article? Do you believe they’re most appropriate given what the article is claiming? Which are new to you? (It’s okay if you don’t recognize some of them!)

The hypothesis tests in the research study

Again, summarize in your own words! You may need to interpret this from the article if the researchers do not directly state it. (Yes, this happens more often than you think.) Identify at least one statistical test in the article that we’ve covered in class and explain it. Your job is not to simply state what was done; your job is to look critically at it.

Submission

  1. Submit both your write-up and the article to the Activity D dropbox in the LMS by the stated due date and time. Combining them into one PDF is required. You can combine PDFs using Adobe Acrobat or, if you want to explore using \(LaTeX\) some more, you can check out the pdfpages package to use the \includepdf command to combine PDFs natively within a qmd file. (Pretty neat, huh?)