GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • First use SPSS to obtain the means for your various groups. • Go to Analyze →Compare Means →Means
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Choose the Dependent (Moral) and Independent (Condition) variables • Click OK.
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • We’re going to use Google Sheets to make this graph • You can access Google Sheets via your Amherst College mail. • Click on the ‘ 3 x 3’ icon in the upper right corner. • Then click on the Sheets icon • Select Blank to create a new document
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Enter the condition names into three cells, one on top of the other. • Enter the corresponding means into the adjoining cells. • Highlight all six cells.
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Go to Insert →Chart • Oh, SNAP!!! That is NOT what we want.
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Click on Setup on the right side under Chart editor • Under Chart type select Column Chart
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Much better!!! But what’s missing? • To add titles and axis labels, you need to click on Customize. Then • Use Chart & axis titles to set the titles for the chart and the two axes. • Use vertical axis to change the minimum and maximum values of the Y-axis (if necessary).
GRAPH TO DISPLAY MEANS • Last step: Name the document • Click on the document title ‘Untitled spreadsheet’ and give it a name.
MAKING A SCATTERPLOT 1. Open your data file in SPSS. 2. Copy and paste the data you want from SPSS into a new google sheets document. 3. Highlight the two columns • Put the X (predictor) variable to the left and the Y (dependent) variable to the right
MAKING A SCATTERPLOT 1. Go to Insert →Chart 2. Select Scatterplot as the chart type. 3. Fiddle with the label axes to provide appropriate labels, etc.