CHYS 2P52 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Likert Scale, Level Of Measurement, Psycinfo

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P52
• Professor: Jan Frijters

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*you can"t see all data involved in histograms as the data is hidden in parts. *in stem & leaf plots, it shows every single piece of data. *box plot/box & whisker plot showing where most people are. Global covers all things (bullying, self esteem, anxiety, learning disabilities) things we care about & want to find out about; can"t access concepts directly. Every way that you can measure a concept. Validity did you measure what you said you would measure? construct can be good or bad take a construct & consider what it is. Whether you measure what you said you were going to measure if you didn"t, you have poor validity if you did, you have great validity. The levels of measurement noir: n(ominal) gives a name to data points, gives an identity to each person you have measured, n i, you can use them to compare groups on something else.