Assessing Data Flashcards
1
Q
What is statistics?
A
Statistics is collecting, organising, analysing and interpreting data.
2
Q
How can data be represented? (3)
A
In an article, table or graph.
3
Q
What do we have to ask when assessing data? (3)
A
Is the data reliable? What is the relationship between the data and the research question? How was the data analysed?
4
Q
What do line graphs show?
A
Changes over time.
5
Q
What is frequency?
A
How often something occurs.
6
Q
What are scatter plots used for?
A
Reviewing the relationship between two variables.
7
Q
What do we use error bars for?
A
To show the standard deviation from the mean.
8
Q
What does it mean when error bars overlap?
A
There is a less likely chance of a significant difference between the datasets.
