Discussion

Interprets the results, linking them back to the research questions and literature review. It explores implications, limitations, and potential future research.

Below are some further considerations to guide your discussion:

• Only discuss the most interesting and important estimates from your tables.

• Discuss whether your parameter estimates are statistically significant and why or why not.

• Compare your results to what others have found and discuss how your findings are similar or different to others’.

• Discuss measurement issues with sincerity and thoroughness.

Good guiding questions are:

• What are the ambiguities of my results?

• What are possible alternative interpretations?

• What are the strongest arguments for one interpretation versus the other?

• What directions for future work are suggested by the results?