Research Methods - 1

Question 1

What is type 1 and type 2 errors

Answer 1

This is where a Psychologist accepts the experimental hypothesis and rejects the null hypothesis when they SHOULD NOT as the result was due to chance.

This is where a Psychologist rejects the experimental hypothesis and accepts the null hypothesis when the SHOULD NOT as the results were NOT due to chance

Question 2

What is nominal , ordinal and interval data

Answer 2

Nominal are data which is categorized
Ordinal is data that is placed into ranks
Interval is data measured with fixed units between a scale