Psychology GCSE
Choosing appropriate displays
What Choosing appropriate displays means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Selecting a display that suits the data, such as a bar chart for categories, a scatter diagram for a relationship between two variables, or a line graph for change over time.
Topics that use Choosing appropriate displays
- Data handling (AQA GCSE)
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