presentation of quantitative data

Question 1

What is the first way quantitative is presented?

Answer 1

Through charts

Question 2

What are the three types of graphs?

Answer 2

• bar charts
• histograms
• scattergram

Question 3

What is a bar chart?

Answer 3

Shows data in the form of categories which the researcher wants to compare. The categories should be placed on the x-axis. The columns should be the same width and separated by a space which illustrates that the data is not continuous. It is ‘discrete data’.

Question 4

What is a histogram?

Answer 4

Histograms are used for continuous data (interval data). The continuous scores are placed on the x-axis and the frequency of them is shown on the y-axis. There should be no spaces between the data as it is continuous and each bar should be the same width.

Question 5

What is a scattergram?

Answer 5

Used to visually represent correlational data