Instructions for Step 2
Go to a computer where you have access to SPSS for Windows.
Open up the SPSS program.
Create a new data file (File --> New --> Data)
Select "Variable View"
For the first variable, under NAME enter the name "Code", then under TYPE click on the "..." and make this variable a string variable. (This enables you to enter letters and not just numbers.)
Select "Data View"
Under the "Code" variable, enter the initials of each of the 30 people (from step 1) in a separate row.
When done with this step, you should have a data matrix with one variable/column and 30 cases/rows.
Next, create a second variable and name it "Female." For each of the 30 people, enter a 1 if the person is female and a zero (0) if the person is male.
SAVE (file-->save) this file under the name "fpp_xxxx" with the "xxxx" replaced by the last four digits of your student ID number. Back up the file on a floppy disk so that you will have a copy even if the file is cleared from the hard disk of the machine you are working on.
And then you will be ready to go on to...