Psychology A-Level
range
What range means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
The highest score minus the lowest score, written with its unit, giving a quick measure of how variable a condition was.
Takes the smallest score away from the largest; it is quick but fixed by two scores only.
Calculated by subtracting the lowest score from the highest.
Topics that use range
- Arithmetic and numerical computation (AQA A-Level)
- Handling data (AQA A-Level)
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- standard deviation
- co-variables
- content analysis
- correlation coefficients
- level of measurement
- levels of measurement
- levels of significance
- measures of central tendency
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