Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and need some urgent help. Really struggling to work out what statistics test I need to test a particular hypothesis. This is the last test I need to conduct, and I've hit a brick wall.

Basically I have two groups, one high knowledge level, one low knowledge level. They were asked to rank the importance of five elements on a 7 point continuous scale (very unimportant to very important) on eight separate occasions (which were scenarios). I hypothesis that these two groups will differ in their rankings of importance.

I apologise for the lack of clarity. Incredibly stressed.

How do I test for this?

Thanks in advance for any replies :)

Hi,

would assume that a 7-point scale gives continuous data (ordinal or interval), if your data are normal, you can do a t-test. Otherwise you have to run a Wilcoxon-Mann Whitney test.

I don't know though, maybe in other disciplines they consider these data categorical then you can run a Chi-square or a Fischer's exact test.
Hope it helps :)

Thanks for your quick reply :) Helped a bunch!

Just done an independent samples t-test and it has come up perfectly.

Had a total mind blank and need to have all the final analysis by Wednesday hence the minor freak out.

Really appreciate the nudge in the right direction :)