Chapter 2.4 Statistics

Question 1

descriptive statistics

Answer 1

numerical characterization that describes data

Question 2

central tendency

Answer 2

measure of the central scores in data set, or where the groups tends to cluster

Question 3

mean

Answer 3

avarage

Question 4

median

Answer 4

middle score in data set

Question 5

mode

Answer 5

most frequent score

Question 6

How people lie with statistics

Answer 6

report unrepresentative measures, like the mean instead of median, Truncate the axes of graphs, neglect base rate probabilities