Edexcel A-Level Psychology AS 1.2.7 Normal and Skewed Distribution Topic Practice

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Question 1

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A group of researchers are testing whether the number of words that can be recalled from a list is influenced by gender. One group of participants is female and the other group of participants is male. Participants have to learn and recall words from a list of 50. Each participant is given a recall score out of 50. The results of this study are shown in Table 2.

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Table 2

Explain why the median is an appropriate measure of central tendency for the data in this study.

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