Fundamental skills

Question 1

Why is equality and diveristy good in scientific groups?

Answer 1

creates different points of view and ideas/ makes individuals explain their ideas in better detail

Question 2

What steps are being taken at a local level to raise the profile of quality and diversity?

Answer 2

increased number of societies/ educating the importance of diveristy

Question 3

What are some equality and diveristy issues within life sciences?

Answer 3

people are not employed/ discriminated against/ harassed

Question 4

What is the difference between equality and equity?

Answer 4

Equality ensures every individual has the same amount of help, equity ensures every individual has all the extra help necessary to ensure the same opportunity is provided.

Question 5

What is intersectionality?

Answer 5

the complex way different forms of discrimination overlaps.

Question 6

What are the 9 protected characteristics in the 2010 equality act?

Answer 6

age/ disability/ gender reassignment/ marriage and civil partnership/ pregnancy and maternity/ race/ religion and belief/ sex/ sexual orientation

Question 7

What is the difference between a covariant and factor variable?

Answer 7

covariant = continuous data // factor = categorical data (there is a limited options of outcomes)

Question 8

What are the main summary statistics?

Answer 8

mean/ median/ range/ IQR

Question 9

When would you refer to the median not the mean?

Answer 9

When the data is skewed and not normally distributed.

Question 10

What are the main methods of plotting data?

Answer 10

scatterplot=shows relationship / boxplot= shows distribution / regression model= /

Question 11

What are meant by response and explanatory variables?

Answer 11

response = dependent variable and refers to the outcome// explanatory= independent variable and refers to the factor which causes the change.

Question 12

What is a general linear model?

Answer 12

a more flexible version of the linear model as multiple variables are included// describes the relationship between the response and explanatory variables

Question 13

What is meant by the r-squared value?

Answer 13

proportion of variance in the dependent variable that can be explained by the independent variable (Ranging from 0->1 , with 0= no explanation and 1 = complete explanation )

Question 14

How do you calculate variance?

Answer 14

sum of squares/ number of observations

Question 15

What does the degrees of freedom tell us?

Answer 15

amount of variation which can change without altering the independent variable

Question 16

What is the F-ratio?

Answer 16

Explained mean square / residual mean squared

Question 17

What variables are shown in a boxplot?

Answer 17

Factor and covaritate

Question 18

What variable are shown in a barpplot?

Answer 18

factor and factor

Question 19

What variable are shown in a scatterplot?

Answer 19

covariate and covariate

Question 20

What is partitioning variation? How can variation be measured ?

Answer 20

Breaking down and understanding of the sources of variation within a data set// measured using a ANOVA TEST or calculating the TOTAL SUM OF SQAURES

Question 21

What are the main outputs from a general linear model test?

Answer 21

Intercept/ slope/ R^2 / p value / F statistic