Week 2: Data, Data, and a little more Data

Hello, fellow brains!

Last week I was mostly coding the pilot data for our prompted conversations and using the criteria of most common messages and the messages with the largest effect on the willingness spectrum (most positive for positive messages, most negative for negative messages). We ended up choosing two messages per condition for the prompted conversations. Using the analyzed data, I created a handout with all the components for the interns to use.

I organized meetings with our high school interns to brief them on the prompted conversation handouts and how to report the data using the Qualtrics we made.

The rest of the week was used mostly on data entry for the experimental data from the cheating experiment we held. As of two weeks ago, we finished running the experiment in all three high schools. My task was checking all the scores of the quizzes and the amount of impossible questions they got right. There was much less cheating than we expected within the data and as of right now, it seems there was not much of a difference between the class treated with the nurturing message and the control message. I also inputted most of the survey responses of the interns and it seems the most common responses are “I do not care because it is not my business” and “I would feel bad because it isn’t fair.” It was also very common for respondents to say that cheating would be less acceptable if others were affected by it.

I also joined the broader Social Cognitive Development Lab for their review team meeting and helped out with a literature review for one of the PhD student’s new study. It was interesting learning about other projects within the broader lab and contributing to them.

This week was mostly data entry, a bit more data entry, and a lot of data entry. Hope to catch you on my blog next week! Sayonara!