![]() Although you could add up all of the 1s (males) and 2s (females) and then divide by 25, the average, 1.4, makes no sense. Assume you have 25 people in your dataset: 15 have identified as male and 10 people have identified as female. Be aware that SPSS will calculate statistics even if the measure of central tendency and dispersion are not appropriate. What do I mean by inappropriate descriptive statistics? The General Social Survey includes two attributes for the variable SEX: male or female. (Whether or not this is exhaustive is another discussion). ![]() ![]() Descriptive statistics are statistics that describe a variable’s central tendency (the ‘middle’ or expected value) and dispersion (the distribution of the variable’s responses). ![]()
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