Unit 2-hard words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 false consensus effect | tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors |
| correlate | measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together, and thus how well either factor predicts the other |
| standard deviation | a completed measure of how much scores very around the mean score |
| frequently distributions | organized list of data (ascending/descending) which allows us to see clusters or patterns |
| Hawthorne Effect | a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they are being studied (participant bias) |
| statistical significance | a statistal statement of how likely it is that an obtained result ocurrred by chance |
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