Description and Data

Example Study Description

• Study of the effects of font color on recall. We were interested in determining which color font contributes to the best recall of words presented.
• Students (n = 12) were randomly drawn from the UNT undergraduate research pool and randomly assigned to one of three stimuli groups:
  • Red (n = 4), Green (n = 4), and Blue (n = 4).
• Participants were then instructed to watch a presentation of 30 words while trying to memorize each word, each presented for 45 seconds.
• Participants were then instructed to recall as many of the words as possible.

Raw data

• Three colors are used to present words.
• Participants are told to memorize the words.
• There are 30 words, each presented for 45 seconds.
• Look carefully at the scores.
• What do you notice?

Font Color	Words Recalled
Red	25
Red	22
Red	23
Red	21
Green	10
Green	12
Green	11
Green	13
Blue	18
Blue	17
Blue	19
Blue	16

Data and Descriptive Statistics

	Red Group	Green Group	Blue Group	Totals
	25	10	18
	22	12	17
	23	11	19
	21	13	16
	91	46	70	207
	4	4	4
	22.75	11.5	17.5
	1.71	1.29	1.29
	2.92	1.66	1.66	6.24
	3	3	3