PSYB01H3 Lecture : Chapter notes
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Chp 12: b01 understanding research results: desc and correlation. Statistics helps to develop an understanding of the collected data. make inferences in the basis of sample data about a population. whenever a variable is studied: there is an operational definition of the variable, there must be 2 or more levels of the variable. recal from chapter 5: the levels of a variable can be desribed using one of the fourls scales of measurement, nominal. the lvls are just diffrn categories or groups. gender, eye color, marital status: ordinal. we can rank the order the variable from lowest to highest. rank of the order of these problems. one problem with this time of level is we don"t know the interval between them. Its like choclate is my most fav candy and my second favoire it bubble gum what is the difference in liking them a lot ? a little : interval.