PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics
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--must only have one independent in order to be able to understand why our results are happening. Reliability: refers to how consistent results are (i. e. high reliability = can be repeated and produce same results; low reliability = results are not always the same, makes it impossible to draw conclusions) Validity: refers to whether or not the results are actually measuring what we think they are measuring. Descripive staisics --- asking about characterisics of whatever sample is in front of us. Probability --- how likely speciic results might be.
