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Behind the numbers

Matt Jarvis helps demystify the mathematical requirements in psychology exams. In this issue: ratios, fractions and percentages, and the relationship between quantitative and qualitative data

These are all ways to represent the relationships between numbers. You should be able to understand what ratios, fractions and percentages show, be able to identify them from tables of data and convert one to the other. The maths should be familiar to you but you need to get used to seeing the numbers in a psychology context.

Here is an example from the classic social psychology experiment by Stanley Milgram.

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