In a thesis paper, how do you write for a statistical treatment?

Thats very contextually broad, and if your doing a thesis, don't you know? Sounds more like economics than Social Sciences... lol... or do you mean literally throwing numbers at people and seeing which one provokes a reaction... interesting concept... your a genius! Though I imagine they would all hurt about the same since all numbers have a start point and an end point right. Based on this reasoning I would think 5 would hurt the most! This is of course an aggressive treatment. Now for a pive treatment I would say 6, 8 & 9. Of course I would prefer to be hit by 0 the most.