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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 558336" data-attributes="member: 1264">kingpaul, could you check some of those numbers? There seem to be some errors and discrepancies with your MBA web page. Here's what I found so far:1) I assume what you listed here as choice 7. should be "H>P=R", not "H>P=H"2) Are you sure 10. H=P>R is the most preferred? I suspect you've got this switched with 11. H=R>P. (That's the order they're listed on your web page) I was rather surprised to see that the most preferred style seemed to be one where roleplay was least important!3) The 13 different styles are numbered differently internally on your survey form. For example, option 3 is H=R>P on the form, P>H>R in your results (and in the list you posted here). Just checking...4) The histograms for <a href="http://kingpaul.topcities.com/MBA/CurrSess.jpg" target="_blank">CurrSess</a> and <a href="http://kingpaul.topcities.com/MBA/PrefSess.jpg" target="_blank">PrefSess</a> seem to be totally off. Both of them show choice #3 to be to most prevalent, whereas it should be #10. I'm guessing this is based on the internal ordering of the survey form, not on the ordering listed in your results. 5)In your <a href="http://kingpaul.topcities.com/MBA/ch6.htm" target="_blank">Research Results</a> chapter, you seem to have mixed up the headings for PrefSess and CurrSess. And you're again mixing up the internal survey form labeling and the final labeling of the session types:6) In several places (including for the type of sessions), you're taking averages of categorical variables. THIS IS NONSENSICAL! Essentially, you've placed arbitrary numerical labels on a categorical variable (like assigning "1" to "Afghanistan" for nation of residence), and now you're trying to do math on those arbitrary lables. If I were the person grading this study, this is probably the place where you'd be losing a lot of points. Here's some quotes straight from your web page: Hmm... I didn't know there was such a large community of Hindu roleplayers in Rwanda! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />If it looks like I'm being picky, it's only because I think a study like this can be hugely valuable to the field. And I greatly appreciate the work you've put into this. However, you also need to make sure your analysis is correct and appropriate if you want people to pay attention to it!</blockquote>

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