ordinal data
What ordinal data means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Can be placed in rank order, but the gaps between ranks are unequal and the units are not standardised, so the median is the safe average.
Scores that can be placed in order but whose gaps are not known to be equal, covering rankings and rating scales.
Topics that use ordinal data
- Data handling and analysis (AQA A-Level)
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- co-variables
- interval data
- levels of measurement
- Meta-analysis
- nominal data
- normal distribution
- primary data
- qualitative data
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