Assessing Data

Question 1

What is statistics?

Answer 1

Statistics is collecting, organising, analysing and interpreting data.

Question 2

How can data be represented? (3)

Answer 2

In an article, table or graph.

Question 3

What do we have to ask when assessing data? (3)

Answer 3

Is the data reliable? What is the relationship between the data and the research question? How was the data analysed?

Question 4

What do line graphs show?

Answer 4

Changes over time.

Question 5

What is frequency?

Answer 5

How often something occurs.

Question 6

What are scatter plots used for?

Answer 6

Reviewing the relationship between two variables.

Question 7

What do we use error bars for?

Answer 7

To show the standard deviation from the mean.

Question 8

What does it mean when error bars overlap?

Answer 8

There is a less likely chance of a significant difference between the datasets.