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GCSE Psychology · key term
A summary of the centre or typical value of a set of results. The mean, median and mode are measures of central tendency.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Descriptive StatisticsA measure of central tendency alongside the range gives a fuller description than either alone. Even so, summaries lose detail. Two groups can have the same mean but different spreads, so a typical score does not tell you how similar the participants’ results were.
Paper 1, Paper 2
A value representing the centre or typical value of a data set, such as the mean, median or mode.
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A value that summarises the centre or typical score of a dataset. The mean, median and mode are measures of central tendency.
