Chapter 14: So what? — making sense of results

Contents

14.1  Look at the data
14.1.1  Fitts’ Law – jumping to the numbers
14.1.2  But I did a regression
14.2  Visualise carefully
14.2.1  Choice of baseline
14.2.2  Choice of basepoint
14.3  What have you really shown?
14.3.1  Think about the conditions
14.3.2  Individual or the population
14.3.3  System vs properties
14.3.4  What went wrong?
14.4  Diversity: individual and task
14.4.1  Don’t just look at the average
14.4.2  Tasks too
14.5  Mechanism
14.5.1  Quantitative and statistical meet qualitative and theoretical
14.5.2  Generalisation
14.5.3  Example: mobile font size
14.6  Building for the future
14.6.1  Repeatability and replication
14.6.2  Meta-analysis and open scholarship

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