Psy 300 Week 1 Problem Analysis Paper

Why should someone be interested in this problem?(Why is it interesting to analyze this data set?)As students prepare for future semesters they typically want the most information they can get beforechoosing their courses. For some students having a good instructor is very important to them. Resourceslike RateMyProfessors.com offer students a way to “rate” their previous instructors, in order to provideuseful information for future students looking to take a course with that teacher. While it could be arguedthat the opinions of these students are subjective, and that the website could be augmented by non-students(outside the population of interest), the success of RateMyProfessors.com would imply a certain validity intheir model of perceived quality.Background information people need to know to understand to problem and/or data set.This data is collected by presumed students going to RateMyProfessors.com and rating a professor. …show more content…
While this sample is far too constrained to formulate conclusions about the entire population ofstudents in the country, it will at least give us a better understanding of perceived quality on this campusand will provide conjecture material for a larger study.This information was collected between the years of 1999 and 2009, and asks the student to provide obser-vational data, such as gender, number of years teaching, perceived easiness, clarity, etc. Each instructor inthis dataset has received at least 10 student ratings.From where did the data come? Is this an experiment or observational study? Who collectedthe