Measures of Central Tendency
Ethical Guidelines
Vocabulary
100

The most commonly occurring value in a set of numbers.

Mode
100

The participant is given all information about risks and benefits before agreeing to participate in a study or experiment.

Informed Consent

100

Research that has to do with language or words.

Qualitative Research

200

The average of all the values in the set.

Mean

200

The consent of a participant not legally able to give full consent.

Informed Assent

200

Research that has to do with numbers or statistics.

Quantitative Research 

300

The value that represents the middle of the set.

Median

300

The personal information of the participant is not shared or stolen.

Confidentiality

300

A graph made by plotting values on a chart and establishing whether or not there is a relationship between two variables.

Scatterplot

400

A value that represents the extent of the spread of a data set.

Range

400

Ensuring the safety of patients/participants during studies or experiments.

 Protection from harm

400

When the data set has a few extreme values greater than the median.

Positive Skew 

500

A measure of the average distance of the values in the set from the mean.

Standard Deviation

500

Explaining the procedure and the necessary deception after the experiment so fully informed consent can be given by the participants.

Debriefing

500

When the data set has a few extreme values that are lesser than the median.

Negative skew

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