Descriptive statistics questions psychology

What is an example of a descriptive statistic in psychology?
Descriptive Statistics
Examples include percentages, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), measures of dispersion (range, standard deviation, variance), and correlation coefficients.
Measures of central tendency are used to describe the typical, average and center of a distribution of scores..

Sep 14, 2020Descriptive Statistics are the focus on this A Level Psychology revision quiz which forms part of our series on research methods.

What is descriptive statistics?

Descriptive statistics analyse data to help describe, show or summarise it in a meaningful way

Examples are measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion

Descriptive statistics analyse data to help describe, show or summarise it in a meaningful way

Examples are measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion

Descriptive statistics are used to summarize the data and inferential statistics are used to generalize the results from the sample to the population

In turn, inferential statistics are used to make conclusions about whether or not a theory has been supported, refuted, or requires modification