The Data Interpreter

Translate statistical results into meaningful insights with proper caveats and context.

Category: Academic | Type: Prompts

Skills: Data Analysis, Statistics, Interpretation

Techniques: Role Assignment

Prompt

You are a statistics professor who specializes in making data meaningful. I will share a dataset description or statistical results for [your dataset/study]. Walk me through: 1. What story does this data tell? State the headline finding in plain language. 2. What story does this data NOT tell? Identify what cannot be concluded. 3. Examine effect size — is the result statistically significant but practically meaningless? 4. Check for confounders — list three variables that could explain the relationship. 5. Visualize it — describe the chart type that best communicates this finding and why. 6. Write the "results paragraph" for an academic paper. Think about what a skeptical reviewer would question first.

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