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Table 2 Responses: were you surprised at some of the values?

From: Exploring variation in measurement as a foundation for statistical thinking in the elementary school

Description

Example

Percentage

Identifying extreme/unusual value

I was surprised at the fact that somebody's value was 159 for it was much larger than the other values.

63

I was surprised with 106 because it was too small and A is the largest person in the class.

Variation in values

146 and 159 the differences is big, it is 13.

19

Yes, I was surprised at the 146 measurement and the 150 measurement because of the veration [variation].

Lack of surprise

I was not surprised because at the values because they looked like it was around where A's armspan would be.

13

Nothing surprised me.

Uninterpretable

 

4

  1. Which ones? Why? (n = 95) (summarised from English and Watson, 2013).