PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Histogram
24 Sep 2020
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Social psychology clearly demonstrates the powers of situational influence. But not everyone responds the same to a given situation. Some of this is just noise complexity of human behavior. Some is a function of stable differences between individuals. We may be different in many ways . Individual differences = how we vary from one another (in relatively. All people (100%) are captured in this figure. Most are in the middle, and the rest are distributed on either side of the middle (fewer as you get farther to the left and right). Median: the score that separates the top 50% from the bottom 50% (the halfway point) Mean: total of all scores, divided by the number of scores being summed (average) Distributions are not always normal, and median and mean are not always the same. How far away from the mean is noticeable (meaningful?) Distributions can have similar means, but different variances. Temps in wash dc & san fran.
