Do men and women differ in the way they tend to organize their groups?
There are two types of argument I might want to make for this example: Men and women tend to organize their groups in different ways, or men and women do not tend to organize their groups in different ways. Either way, I will find it convenient to have a table that compares the proportion of men who organize their groups in each way to the proportion of women who organize their groups in each way. The table will look something like the example to the left. I have shown the table as I created it in Excel, but you could just as easily prepare it on columnar paper. Now that I have the table, as soon as I have gathered data (see the example on how to gather and tabulate data), I can fill out my table in a couple of ways. I could do it by hand – make a copy of the table, then go through the tabulated data and put a hash mark in the appropriate cell for each subject. For example, the first subject in my data set is a male who usually organizes group work in a mixed fashion, working independe
