A team wants to know which factors relate to job satisfactio…
A team wants to know which factors relate to job satisfaction. They survey 300 employees and measure satisfaction alongside twenty possible correlates: commute time, salary, team size, office location, and so on. One correlate, natural light at the desk, comes back significant at p = .04. The team writes up natural light as a key driver of job satisfaction and recommends companies act on it.
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A study tests whether a new writing curriculum improves student essays. At the end of the semester, one teacher, the person who designed the curriculum and taught the class, reads each essay and rates its quality from 1 to 10. Essays from the new curriculum score higher on her ratings, and the curriculum is judged a success.
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