Psychology A-Level
significance levels
What significance levels means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of significance levels
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Reference: OCR
The accepted probability is 0.05, meaning a result this extreme would arise by chance about five times in a hundred, with a stricter 0.01 used where a false positive would be serious.
Topics that use significance levels
- Data recording, analysis and presentation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- critical values
- ethical guidelines
- levels of measurement
- mathematical requirements
- measures of central tendency
- measures of dispersion
- participant and researcher effects
- raw data tables
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