Ok, I'll try and keep this short: For the few of you who might know me, I'm a English grad student at West Chester University, and I'm currently in the middle of writing my MA thesis. One of the key components to my research will be a survey of gamers in the Metal Gear community, looking at perceptions of in-game morality and the potential for player-character/character-player transferability of morality.

Here's the problem - as I've already noted, I'm in the English department, so it'll be pretty easy for you all to assume that mathematics isn't necessarily my strong suit, let alone the analysis of data and statistics. I was wondering if anybody is aware of a good resource, either online or as a physical text (hopefully reasonably priced), that can actually teach me the fundamentals of interpreting the data when the time comes. I'm sure there's a "...For Dummies" book out there, but in my experience those aren't always necessarily the best option. Any help in this matter is deeply appreciated.

-Ryan