Application

Question 1

What are the main points to include when evaluating data

Answer 1

• was a stats test used to determine whether differences are significant ?
• does it show results for more than one plant / species / organism / age / gender etc
• do standard deviations overlap
  -what was the most effective / least effective ?
  -do figures show that eg co monoxide conc at 5 is deadly or have you assumed this
  -find the range of the data , mode and mean
  -was there a large or small sample size
• range of data studied eg are values close together , should they investigate a wider range of values?
  why is there no sig diff if the standard deviations do overlap