Distributions (RM)

Question 1

What is normal distribution?

Answer 1

What the mean, median and mode of a distribution are the same (or v similar)

Question 2

What would a normal distribution look like on a graph?

Answer 2

Most scores occur around the middle reflecting that the mean, median and mode lie at the midpoint of the graph
Graph looks almost symmetrical

Question 3

What is positively skewed distribution?

Answer 3

This is when most scores fall below where the mean appears on the graph

Question 4

What does positively skewed distribution show?

Answer 4

That the mean is not a very representative score and it therefore shouldn’t be used as the sole measure of tendency

Question 5

What is negatively skewed distribution?

Answer 5

This is when most score fell mainly above where the mean appears on the graph

Question 6

What does negatively skewed distribution show?

Answer 6

That the mean is not a very representative score and it therefore shouldn’t be used as the sole measure of tendency