Psychology A-Level
recovering a mean
What recovering a mean means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of recovering a mean
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Reference: OCR
Dividing an overall score by the number of participants returns the mean without anyone ever seeing an individual score.
Topics that use recovering a mean
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
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