PSYC 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Benjamin Disraeli, Central Tendency, Xm Satellite Radio

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2002
• Professor: Steven Carroll

Document Summary

A way in which a person or thing is likely to behave. A measure of central tendency is a single score that describes the behavior of a distribution of scores. Imagine i"m in the head of stats co. inc. ltd. , the world"s most influential and powerful stats company. I visit our ottawa sales office, and ask how well the stats salespeople are doing. The manager tells me weekly sales of stats are around 750$ per person . There isn"t really enough information to tell. So i ask what are the actual sales figures for the 5 sales people? . 19th century british prime minister benjamin disraeli is reputed to have said: there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. We"ll see that the sales manager wasn"t really lying, but he wasn"t being particularly. This is more commonly known as the arithmetic average.