ATTITUDE TOWARDS STATISTICS AMONG THE PH.D RESEARCH SCHOLARS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF NORTH-EAST INDIA

Abstract

In the present study, it aimed to study the attitude towards Statistics among Research Scholars across different disciplines of North East Indian Universities. Keeping in view the essence of the present study, Attitude Towards Statistics scale has been employed as a tool for the purpose of collection of data. However, three main dimensions of attitude towards Statistics scale includes such as Affect on Statistics, Cognitive Competence on Statistics and Difficulty in Statistics. Moreover, percentage analysis has been applied through SPSS. Based on the findings of the study, it is evident that in terms of attitude towards Statistics most of the research scholars belonging to different four disciplines such as (Economics, Education, Political Science and Geography) from different eight universities (GU, NEHU, Mizoram University, Manipur University, RGU, NU, TU and SU) of North-East India have shown a low attitude in terms of affect on Statistics. However, it showed a high attitude on cognitive competence and it showed a low attitude in terms of difficulty in Statistics.  It is thus obvious from the findings that majority of the research scholars showed low attitude towards Statistics.