Academic Use of IBM SPSS Statistics
April 03, 2025

Academic Use of IBM SPSS Statistics

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Overall Satisfaction with IBM SPSS Statistics

I use IBM SPSS Statistics for academic analyses, specifically within the domain of psychology and neuroscience.

Pros

  • Data organization and set up
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Importing data from other platforms (excel)
  • Saving data to multiple formats (pdf)

Cons

  • Making output files more concise (students just learning how to use SPSS have a hard time figuring out where to look for information)
  • Having "saved" or "favourite" functions for those that I use often (or in cases where I need to run back to back similar analyses)
  • Data cleaning after importing from excel can be improved (some data automatically considered numeric whereas other data isn't)
  • Saving time
  • Data visualization
  • Teaching and demonstrating
Syntax, Data file set up, saving to multiple formats, importing data from multiple formats
Show students clearly how the analyses are conducted (where the independent and dependent variables are, what kind of options and corrections can be requested)

Do you think IBM SPSS Statistics delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM SPSS Statistics's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM SPSS Statistics live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM SPSS Statistics go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM SPSS Statistics again?

Yes

I like using IBM SPSS Statistics for my own statistical analyses I like using SPSS with students to show them how to conduct basic statistics I also like using SPSS to help me visualize complex data I find SPSS is less appropriate when we're needed to run long or multiple computations (some colleagues will use code in R that can loop or that can repeat)

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