Читать книгу Interpreting and Using Statistics in Psychological Research - Andrew N. Christopher - Страница 57

In Wendt’s (2013) research, there were a total of 108 respondents. Each respondent had a score on each variable in this study, which means that there were a lot of data that she needed to organize. In this section, we will focus on the scores from the measure of burnout. Table 3.1 contains the burnout score for each respondent. Recall that scores on the burnout measure could fall between 15 and 75. If you can meaningfully summarize Table 3.1, you’re more insightful than I am. What we need to do here is somehow organize these 108 burnout scores so that people can make sense of them. The purpose of a frequency distribution is to organize a large amount of data in a format that people can understand quickly. There are two formats that a frequency distribution can take: a frequency distribution table and a frequency distribution graph. Let’s use the 108 burnout scores from Wendt’s research to illustrate both formats.