SPSS normal distribution

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Hi,

I need some help with this.

I ran a test of normality on my samples is spss. The Shaprio-wilk "sig" reading is 0.00 so since it's less than 0.5 my sample isn't normally distributed.

Looking at my Q-Q plot, shows this too.

What is the significance of the fact that my sample isn't normally distributed? Can i still reject/accept null hypotheses in a t-test? Or am i jumping ahead of myself? If my sample fails a normal distribution test it should be thrown in the bin??

Also, my shapiro-wilks sig is 0.00, not even 0.01 or .02. Could this mean the data is entered wrong?

THanks

2Scoops

I wouldn't live or die by what Shapiro-Wilks says, tbh. The fact that it's 0.0 probably means it's zero for several decimal places and got truncated - try pasting into Excel to check.

Your options are to ignore Shapiro and look for other signs of normality (skewness, kurtosis, or just looking at it!) and if they're all clear, go with the t-test. If it's definitely not normally distributed, use a non-parametric equivalent of the t-test to test your hypothesis.

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Thanks for the response Scoops.