Specifically - where does the 'methods' chapter end and the 'results' chapter begin?
If anyone has any thoughts or recent experience on this I'd be grateful.
I'm aware there's a section called 'data analysis' in the final bit of the methods chapter. In here I was intending to put the pilot study results, the data screening and the rationale for types of statistical methods to use.
In the results chapter I intend to put the 'practical' explanation of each statistical method and the results.
My question is, does my exploratory factor analysis (which is quite long) go in the methods section where it logically sits as it was a means of data screening, or is it a result... in that it gave me some initial results that indicate the theories I was looking at were indeed separate entities?
Or perhaps there is no 'right' answer?
I've found Effective Writing in Psychology by Beins and Beins quite useful but it doesn't go to this level of answer. Thanks in anticipation.
Caroline Wilson
PhD Research Student
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
De Montfort University
UK
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