Difficulties: At first, I have difficulties combine all data in one graph though I eventually find a way to combine them as shown in my assignment submission. However, I’m still thinking about whether I should present all data from 18 plants or just do the mean numbers. My current solution to this is depending on whether my report refer to all 18 data. I may generate more graphs if needed.
Outcome: The figure visualizes all my data and makes it show certain trends. Grouping the data into a figure is easier to read and understand. From the figure, I can tell directly that the data results are in line with my expectations.
Data: The three bean plants against the wall generally had fewer buds and flowers, but a high flowering rate, which I did not expect. However, the sample size for this phenomenon was too small to generalize to a conclusion and direction of research. Perhaps future replication with a larger sample size is needed to determine if this is randomly occurred or if it is influenced by some factors.
I am still not clear how your 3 groups are organized, you will have to consider if there are other factors that differ between your groups other than sunlight. I will have to see your graph/table before I can comment much on that part.
Thank you for your comment! The three groups are depending on the duration of sunlight that the bean plants received. I observed the sunlight whole day, and find out that the shortest time group only receives 2 hours of sunlight (6am-8am), medium group receives 7 hours (6am-1pm), and the longest group receives 9 hours of sunlight (6am-3pm).
Because the angle of the sunlight changes, so 6 plants can only receive 2 hours of sunlight, another 6 plants receive 7 hours, and the rest receive 9 hours. That’s how I organized and observed my groups.