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Chapter 10 Descriptive Statistics Numbers – One tool for collecting data about communication phenomena – Capture quality, intensity, value, or degree – Only meaningful if they are interpreted Operationalizations specify how data are collected and become numerical 1 © 2006 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Looking at a Dataset 2 © 2006 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Normal Curve Also known as bell curve A theoretical distribution of scores – Majority of cases distributed around the peak in the middle – Progressively fewer cases moving away form the middle – Symmetrical – one side mirrors the other – Mean, median, and mode have the same value 3 © 2006 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Normal Curve 4 © 2006 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Skewed Distributions Curve is asymmetrical Positively skewed curve – very few high scores Negatively skewed curve – very few low scores 5 © 2006 by The McGraw­Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. ... - tailieumienphi.vn
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