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Aug 20, 2025 29 min

What are Descriptive and Inferential Statistics?

from Statistics for the Social Sciences

Hi all, and welcome to the second episode of our podcast on Statistics for the Social Sciences! In this episode, we're going to take a little bit of time to further discuss/investigate the syllabus but the majority of this podcast is going to focus on defining some key terms: descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, sample, and population. We'll also spend some time walking through the basics of the research process as well as the types of questions we'll look into as part of your larger research paper. This episode wraps with the overall plan for the rest of the class and a quick note about SPSS, the statistical software we'll be making good use of to do the heavy lifting of statistical calculations. As you listen to the episode, do email me ([email protected]) if you have any concerns or questions come up and I will assist you as quickly as I can!

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