PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture 4: Psych 101 Week 4
2 Oct 2017
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Casual estimates often misread reality and misinform. Presentation of statistical information needs more transparency. 1 in 7,000 to 2 in 7,000 far less risky than an abortion! Off-the-top-of-the-head estimates often misread reality and then mislead the public. Others echo it, and before long the big, round number becomes public misinformation. We ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brain. The human brain has 100 billion nerve cells. A branch of mathematics used by researchers to organize, summarize, and interpret data. We use statistics both to describe data and as a basis for inferring information from data. Statistics are often presented in a graphic or visual form. Measure of central tendency-a single number that presents information about the center of a frequency distribution. Useful for putting information about a distribution into a more compact form, summarizing the distribution with a single score that is typical in some way.
