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Research Methods = Descriptive statistics
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- 1Continuous Measurementmeasurement can be continuously subdivided
can be halved, and halved and halved again - 2Discrete Measurementcan be of only a particular kind of value, the data has no infinitely in-between data
- 3Dichotomous Measurementcan only possibly be two values
- 4Nominal DataData which is just categories without any orderly value
eg. male/female - 5Ordinal DataEG 1st, 2nd, 3rd ec.
Data with an order but no specified numerical value - 6ScaleInterval and Ratio Data
Data which strictly uses the number line,
Ratio has a '0' floor where as Interval can go below '0' - 7Likert Scaleused commonly on questionnaires, recommended to be 5,7 or 9 options usually consisting of 'agree' 'neither' 'disagree' etc.
- 8mean, median, modemean = the scores added up and then divided by the number of individual scores.
median = once ordered, it is the statistics in the centre
mode = the statistic which occurs the most in the dataset - 9SDStandard Deviation: an indication of how spread the dataset is
- 10Skewness and KurtosisSkewness is a measurement of how smushed the dataset is on the X axis
Kurtosis is a measure of how smushed the dataset is on the Y axis
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- Psychology Flashcards on Research Methods = Descriptive statistics, created by paul mcgovern on 07/01/2021.
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