Psychology A-Level
representativeness and generalisability
What representativeness and generalisability means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of representativeness and generalisability
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Reference: OCR
Stratification improves representativeness but takes time and depends on accurate population figures, and a large biased sample is still biased.
Topics that use representativeness and generalisability
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
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