Discusses the creation of assistance software for the social sciences that will allow the undertrained or untrained to perform statistical analyses and research methods. Three areas are proposed as major contributors to the development of easier to use assistance software: (1) authoring software with a variety of instructional and learning applications, (2) the new, inexpensive multimedia capabilities of sound, animation, pictures, and motion video that allow the users to use all their senses in the learning process, and (3) the ability to link scattered software operations and resources into an automated whole. Examples of current hardware and software tools within each of the 3 areas are examined. (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1994 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
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