[Social-sciences-list] statistics course

Vincent Martin vincent.martin at gatech.edu
Sun Aug 4 22:27:12 UTC 2013


Crystal,
The latest version of SPSS is much more usable and accessible than the
previous four or five versions!  With that being said, that does not mean
that it is easy to use.  You will still have to import all your data into
SPSS from Excel or a .csv file, run your calculations and then export it.
You will probably need some assistance interpreting what this means as
sighted people can readily "see" what the output means by analyzing the
graphs on the screen.  If you have a sighted assistant in class, then this
can be facilitate quite well.  Otherwise, you will be learning much more
than they will just to get the same results and interpretation of the data.
As many on this list will tell you, statistics is an inherently visual
Mathematics class.  It is the only form of Mathematics where they will
readily tell you to draw a picture of what you have before you start to
solve the problem.

With all that being said, you will probably find more assistance on this
list than other s and you will find even more on the blind math list.  We
readily discuss it there and how to use the "r" program to calculate
Statistics as well.   


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Subject: [Social-sciences-list] statistics course

Hello All,

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far. I have a couple concerns I
would like to discuss with you guys concerning my statistics course I will
start in the fall. I do not know much about statistic courses, so I do not
know what accomodations I should ask for. Does this class require the use of
graphs and if so how did you work with them. I understand that the program
SPSS is needed for the course I will take, but what worries me is that I
have no clue how to use it. If any of you have used this program I would
really appreciate your advice. I look forward to hearing from everyone.


Thank you,
Crystsal Redick

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