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GCSE Psychology · key term
The extent to which scores in a dataset are spread out.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1, Paper 2
The extent to which values in a dataset are spread out.
Revise: Statistical summaries and normal distributionsThe range is a measure of dispersion, which means spread. Using both helps a researcher describe results more clearly than using an average alone.
Paper 1, Paper 2
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The extent to which scores in a data set are spread out.
Dispersion describes how spread out the scores are. Using both gives a more useful summary than an average alone.
