Browsing by Subject "Mean"

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    • Compairing means 

      Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
      A classroom mathematical exploration of the mean In this article, we outline a series of explorations with data, spanning between 3 and 5 lessons, to develop conceptual understanding of the mean. These explorations were ...

    • Editorial: challenges to mean-based analysis in Psychology: the contrast between individual people and general science 

      McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (Frontiers, 2016)

    • How mean is the mean? 

      McGann, Marek; Speelman, Craig P. (Frontiers, 2013)
      In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and ...