this is a short video on setting up jamovi um so I'm really going to cover what the different variable types are and the basic setup um some features that I think are useful so in this first video I'm just going to enter some fake data just to just to show you what I'm doing um this is version 2.3.2 which is right there and you can see that the basic Jovi setup uh look looks very similar when you open it looks very similar to Excel or spreadsheet um SPSS data view things like that so this should feel pretty familiar to some of you now um like SPSS you have a header row here and that should be your variable names um and so you do not want to put your variable names in this top row uh each row is typically going to be um a participant in our case and psychology um and so uh that might be that might be different depending on how you're setting up your data but for most purposes in in these class in this class we're going to talk about a row as a single participant um so first of all uh you can get to editing your data different ways you can double click on the variable that you want to edit so I could double click where it says a and it has these little circles right there um so the little circles indic that it's set up as a nominal variable um so you do need to be familiar with levels of measurement when you're setting up your data so I'm going to double click there and you can see that there's a space for a name here so this is where you put your name there shouldn't be any spaces place to put a description um your level of measurement this is one of the reasons why levels of measurement matter and why I won't let you forget them uh data type so it's it's going to automatically determine this but sometimes it will do it wrong wrong and you need to make sure that it's correct or you will have some problems um you can also add levels here and um you can uh you can do a few other things here um so before I get into this I do want to show you that you can get here from multiple places so first of all if I want this to go away I can click this up Arrow to minimize it to hide it and you can get there by going to um if you're in data you can go to setup same thing you can Arrow over to the different variables different columns I could also go to variables and go to edit um so there's different ways to get there right so I'm going to stay in data I'm just going to double click now and I'm going to call this gender and I'm going to say um I'm going to use the question here as the description so this is a a mi habit um because when I share data it makes it easy to see exactly what questions were asked for surveys um so this really just depends on on the type of data you're using and how much you need to describe there so I'm going to say with which gender do you most identify and this um you can copy and paste in here which is Handy um but I'm going to go talk about this uh measurement type so gender is nominal there's no innate order to it there's no numbers naturally so we're just going to leave it as nominal now you could enter it as integer let's say that you have um already identified the numbers that your um genders are going to be assigned to and you're just going to enter those directly typically if you're entering data manually it's actually safer to put it in as a text so you could say um man woman non binary oops can't spell um woman and we'll do five so I could do that and notice that there's a little a there because it's alpha numeric um so that's saying that this is text I cannot do the same types of analyses on a text variable um so again kind of rare that you'll be entering it as text it's um more likely that you're going to be using data that you're importing from somewhere maybe it's from qualtrix or Google forms or just an Excel sheet or a CSV or an SPSS file whatever it is and what's more likely I'm going to add this I'm going to say gender um gender text just so you can see the difference between them and then this one I'm going to make gender I'm not going to make it text so in this case and and let's go ahead I'm going to copy from here so just going to copy um you it's easiest to just go ahead and do like control um copy control C and then control V to paste so I'm gonna paste that and um I'm GNA leave this as nominal because entering it as a number doesn't change its level of measurement it's still just a category name but we're going to assign a number for analysis purposes so I'm going to leave it as an integer here and I'm going to say um this is one uh two three and two and two so now notice that I have these levels here so what I could do is I can say oh one is a man two is a woman three it's nonbinary and you'll notice that you have the same information here represented but you can um it's set up as an integer and so you can do uh different analyses which becomes important later uh so you can also take this and transform it um which if you are doing a class with me I'm making you do so I'm having you enter things as text so that you can then transform them into um integers or um into other uh other forms so that is our introduction so we've done a text variable and we have done an integer nominal variable so next let's go ahead and do some scales so there I have other videos on how scales and psychology work um liquor type scales in particular so I'm going to use a liquor type scale and this is the social media addiction scale and this is zusa at all [Music] 2019 um so this is a six item scale and the response options range from um one which is never to always which is five and then you get a total score of social media addiction so I'm going to call this sma1 this is for item one now I could just enter the score but that's not the optimal way to do that I could enter the total score you want to enter each variable so that you could do reliability analyses or variety of other things it also keeps you from making mistakes if you're calculating by hand or um using some other program and then and then uploading uh so I'm going to copy and paste because I am efficiently lazy so we're going to do copy and paste there's other ways to do this that are more um more complicated we're not going to do that well it saves time it's more complicated so we're going to stick with Basics right now so I now have my question here and if I have a single question on a rating scale um and it has categories that you're putting in order technically it's ordinal um it's kind of a controversy you're going to have instructors that uh will tell you that it's interval and that's the way that we use it sometimes but really a single item is going to be ordinal so I would set it up as ordinal it's not going to make a huge difference unless you're doing an analysis that is specific to um ordinal data and we'll talk uh in class and I have other videos that talk about why it is ordinal and why we treat um a score a total score of response uh items as interval so I'm G to have ordinal I'm going to leave it as integer and I definitely do not want it as text if I make it text you're not going to be able to do analyses it's actually one of the the biggest issues when you're entering data or setting up your data um you'll be setting it up and you're all happy and everything was good and then you try and do your your your descriptive statistics and it won't calculate for you correctly um or you're trying to transform your variable and you can't because it's set up as text so you want to make sure that it's set up as integer or decimal if appropriate right so this is integer so um I'm going to continue to ignore this missing values we're not going to talk about that um right now so my social social media addiction scale it is um I'm going to put in my two three just to give us all the examples so I have 1 two 3 four five and again I can add labels to this so I can say never um rarely sometimes and you can leave the numbers in there if that's helpful for you so if you want it to show up as like one well never and then one that's fine too I don't care whatever makes you happy um so you know we'll do it for the sake of just demonstrating and being consistent here and then sometimes often always again this is ordinal because we have categories there's not a set space between them it's not like um if somebody says uh never and then um says rarely on a different question and then sometimes on another one it's not like it's the same exact amount of use between each of those levels right so it is ordinal technically it is ordinal I know some of you are going to have teachers that want to fight me about this um and that's fine so here once I click out of it it's going to save them I have them here at the bottom um and so you can see that it is set up as integer and just to demonstrate if I wanted to go to analysis and I go exploration descriptives um I could look at this SMA 1 and I can go um look at it here and it's going to come up with a mean a median and a standard deviation minimum maximum it's going to tell me how many are missing and how many values there are so uh I can do that because it's a text variable um sorry it's a numeric variable it is an integer right now if I do that for gender text let's actually compare these so let's look at gender text first um notice that there's no mean there's no median there's no standard deviation minimum or maximum because it's not a number so it can't analyze it that way uh now if I were to go to my gender just gender um which is the uh one that has um our labels in there notice that it calculates a mean and a median and a standard deviation that is not what we would use um so I could change that and I could look at frequencies instead but for now just know that how you set up the variables is going to affect the results that you get so now we have some information here um in our little output all right um so going back to setting this up um let's set up another one so I'm going to set up SMA 2 and um this one because we've used the first three that they give us you're now just going to say new data variable you could also do new computered or new transformed I'm going to show that in other videos um but I'm just going to say new data variable and I'm going to call this SM oops SMA 2 and I'm going to copy and paste my new question um and I'm going to set it up the same way so this is ordinal integer and and I'm just going to go ahead and I'm and paste um and so again we have entered some data so that's all that I really want to show in this video um so there are future videos with more information more details and then we'll get more complicated later on um so uh the last thing I do want to show you or actually two last things I'm going to show you that are that are important for setup uh you can zoom so there's a variety of information this these little three dots right here if you click on them you can zoom so I'm zoomed in a little bit for this video um you can change result formatting you can also go to syntax mode so we're not talking about syntax right now um but that's basically the um language that this program uses and so you can make your life a lot easier if you learn syntax um but we're not going to do that right now so we can always switch you can also do um color palette there's all sorts of um other things you can do I have it set to automatically install updates but that's that right there and then you should save this so I'm going to save it notice that it has the um has old files and so I'm going to go ahead and say I'm going to save as and I'm going to save this as um I'm going just call it social media addiction I like to add dates for things so I would want to have dates for when um dates for when I'm making video or not videos when I'm making when I'm working on files so the reason why that can be helpful is that um sometimes it's beneficial for you to save any changes that you make so that in case you made a mistake you can go back to your original data so let's say that um tomorrow I open this up and I transform some variables um and I add some additional lines of data I collect more data and I manually enter it which again rare but you might do it um then I could change it and do 815 uh 2023 so for this um I'm going to save it and then I can open it in the future so I'm just going to say save and now it's been saved you'll notice it's a omv file so that is the end of this introductory video stay tuned for more videos