Chapter 6: Research methods

Presentation of quantitative data Know your graphs! 6.28a

196–197

Reminder
following:
know about the th and direction
of
You will need to esents the streng
ap h th at repr is.
– a type of gr ational analys
a) Scattergram between co-variables in a correl
a relations hip ch variable is
in w hich the frequency of ea
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– a type of grap e bars.
b) Bar chart th e height of th
represented by
tions.
skewed distribu
c) Normal and

Task: For each of the following four graphs.

a) Identify the type of graph.

b) State what we can conclude from the graph. There may be more than one conclusion to be drawn!

1
The relationship between age and
score on general knowledge test.

20 The relationship between age and A) scatter gram

score on general knowledge test.
of 20out of 20

15 - weak positive correlation

on g.k. test

20 - a 20 year old scored highest on the test

10
- scores improved with age
Score outScore

15
on g.k. test

5
10
0
0 10 20 30 40 50
5
Age in years
0
0 10 20 30 40 50
Age in years
2
Self-reported improvement score following six-week therapy intervention.

Self-reported
15 improvement score following six-week therapy intervention.
score

12
10
10 8 A) bar chart
Improvement

15 B) CBT + antidepressants are the

score

5 12
10 1
most effective in improving scores
10 8 0
Improvement

0 - the self-help group is the least

5 Type of therapy effective in imporivng scores
0 1
0
CBT antidepressants CBT + antidepressants control group self-help group
Type of therapy

CBT antidepressants CBT + antidepressants control group self-help group

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