1.1 And 1.2 Primary And Seconday Data

Question 1

1.1 What is Quantitive data?

Answer 1

Measurements written in numerical form with units attached to them.
Example:

12m of rope or 152 cm of height

Question 2

1.1 What it Qualitative data?

Answer 2

It is data but it is described as words.
Example:

Rock type

Question 3

1.1 What is Primary Data?

Answer 3

Data that you or your team collect.

Question 4

1.1 What is Secondary data.

Answer 4

Data that you collect from the work of others, always making sure that you reference them.

Question 5

1.1 What does the scientific term Mistake mean?

Answer 5

Mistakes are made by us humans and can be avoided if we take care.

Question 6

1.1 What does the scientific term Errors mean?

Answer 6

Errors are not mistakes. Errors are small and unavoidable variations (changes) that occur naturally in measurement.

Question 7

1.2 How old could some primary data be?

Answer 7

Some data never changes.
Data describing something must be as recent as possible because data from a year ago can be so inaccurate the any prediction using that data are bound to be wrong.

Question 8

1.2 Where does Primary data come from?

Answer 8

Encyclopedias, scientific journals or science textbooks. Data can also be trusted if it comes from trusted scientific magazines, not gossip and celebrity magazines.

Question 9

1.2 What is a URL?

Answer 9

Uniform Resource Locator. This gives you intel on who created the website and whether it can be trusted or not. Links that don’t work are signs of a suspicious website.