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The reporting of these is much as for the more basic experiments that you ran earlier in your career (see Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the book). You may, however, have more than one set of data and associated analyses to report. If so, it may be necessary to construct separate tables of descriptive statistics for each set of data. Nevertheless, your goal should be to be concise: use as few tables of descriptive statistics as are necessary to report your data without confusing the reader.
If you have several DVs and associated analyses to report, consider the data and its attendant analyses as two sides of the same coin. So report them as a unit, by describing the data first and then the outcomes of the relevant inferential analyses before moving on to the next data/analysis set. Moreover, you should step through these in order of merit, starting with the data and analyses that are central to the experimental hypothesis and working through to the material that is illuminating but essentially ancillary. The principal task is to make clear precisely how the data were analysed, what the outcome of each particular analysis was (making it clear in the process to which each belongs) and, if you are testing for significance, whether the outcome was statistically significant and at what level. |
