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What does CORMMSS stand for when designing an investigation?

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Change, organism, repeat, measure, measure, same, same

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What does FLIDUB stand for when drawing tables?

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Full Labels, Independent variable, Dependent variable, Units, Brackets

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What graph would you plot if your data was continuous?

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Line graph

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What graph would you plot if your data was categoric?

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Bar graph

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What does SLAPUK stand for?

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Scale, Line/bar, Axis, Points, Units, Key

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What does SEE stand for when evaluating a statement?

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Statement, Evidence, Explain

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What is reliability?

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How consistent and trustworthy a set of results are

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What is accuracy?

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How close the result is to the true value

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What is precision?

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The closeness of repeated
results to each other

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How can reliability be improved?

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Take more repeats

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How can accuracy be improved?

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