Research methods - Summarising the Data

Question 1

Tables: quantitative data

Answer 1

• show any patterns in the scores
• ‘raw data’ tables show the scores before any analysis has been done on them
• other tables may show descriptive statistics such as the mean, range and standard deviation

Question 2

Line graphs: more than one set of data

Answer 2

• use with continuous data
• the independent variable is plotted along the x-axis and the dependent variable is plotted up the y-axis

Question 3

Bar charts: non-continuous data

Answer 3

• use with non-continuous data
• columns don’t touch each other