PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Central Tendency, Standard Deviation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

In descriptive, correlational, and experimental research, statistics are tools that help us see and interpret what the unaided eye might miss. Educated person able to apply simple statistical principles to everyday reasoning. Don"t need to memorize complicated formulas to think clearly/critically about data. Off-the-top-of-the-head estimates often misread reality, then mislead the public. Someone throws out a big, round number. others echo it before long the big, round number becomes public misinformation. We ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brain. The human brain has 100 billion nerve cells. Doubt big, round, undocumented numbers. that"s actually a lesson we. The united states government now knows that at least 1429 syrians. Statistical illiteracy also feeds needless health scares. In the 90s, british press reported a study showing women taking a particular contraceptive pill; 100% increased risk of blood clots that may produce strokes.