Psychology and Sociology Statistics and Data
- Childstats.govFrom the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
- Statistics PrimerTutorial with 5 easy to follow units covering all aspects of working with statistics.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) StatisticsFrom the US Department of Health and Human Services,
Psychology and Sociology Organization Web Sites
Psychology and Sociology Government Web Sites
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)Part of the National Institutes of Health.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) StatisticsFrom the US Department of Health and Human Services,
Selected Research Methods Web Sites
- Psychology Research Methods TextFocuses on basics of research design and the critical analysis of professional research.
- Research Methods: From Question to ConclusionActivity exploring how psychologists draw solid conclusions from the complex and often ambiguous phenomena they study.
- Social Research MethodsResources and links for applied social research and evaluation.
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Trusting information from the web
The web is a mix of high and low quality resources. Evaluating your sources is always an important part of research, but even more so on the web.
- Evaluating Information Sources for Purpose, Perspective, Agenda, and BiasThis section of the Information Skills Tutorial shows you how to decide whether an information resource is
* relevant to your topic
* written by someone with the appropriate expertise and credentials
* recent enough
* objective and trustworthy enough
