Measures Of Dispersion Flashcards
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What’s a disadvantage of using the range?
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It’s not accurate, because it doesn’t consider the scores in the middle
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What does the measure of dispersion tell you about the data?
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How spread out the data is
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What does standard deviation tell you about the data?
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How spread out the data is from the mean. If it is 0 then all the values were the same as the mean, if it is a large value then it’s very spread out from the mean
