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Unit 1 – Scientific Foundations of Psychology
Topic 1.5
Which of the following best describes the distinction between descriptive and inferential statistics?
Descriptive statistics make predictions about future trends, while inferential statistics describe present data.
Descriptive statistics provide judgments about accuracy, while inferential statistics simply describe data.
Descriptive statistics describe data, while inferential statistics make inferences about a population based on sample data.
Descriptive statistics evaluate the significance of differences between groups, while inferential stats only describe these differences.
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