What's the difference between data analysis and a conclusion?

Question

this is in terms of science.

Answer 1

The basic difference between a data analysis and a conclusion is that, a data analysis deals with the information and or data you have obtained from doing a certain experiment. it also deals with organizing and examining the collected data using narratives, charts, graphs or tables and analyzing( or interpreting) the information you have. Whereas, the conclusion literally means the answer to the experiment. the conclusion explains the experiment in an overall basis and explains your hypothesis right or wrong. For example; If you want to check the affect of different lights on the growth of a certain plant, first you will make an hypothesis. Later, materials, purpose, procedures, observations, data/graphs......At the end you will have to do your conclusion. In your conclusion you will explain, if the light did have an affect on the certain plant, basically checking to see if your hypothesis was correct or incorrect. The conclusion is also known as a final settlement and it ends the experiment by showing what happened as the result?..............Hope that helped!!

Answer 2

data analysis is essentially a statistical statement, as in

"this data shows that the  hypothesis is proven at p less than 0.05"

or , "the mean average of the date is 8.7 seconds.:

However, there is also a data analysis section in most papers, these tend to be quite long.

a conclusion takes you more back into the theory/hypothesis

like

"the experiment shows that cigarette smoking lowers average life span by 8 years in American men."

Further research is needed to determine if this is also true for American females.

the conclusion at the end of a paper tends to be 2 to 5 paragraphs.