Can you compare the central tendency and spread of the two variables ‘I like going to school’ and ‘school is boring’? Which measures do you use, and what do they tell you?
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Both variables are ordinal, so we need to use the median as our measure of central tendency. We can find the median in the first box of our output (provided we have asked SPSS to provide it by ticking the box, as discussed in the chapter):
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In this case the median for both variables is 3, which corresponds to an ‘agree’ answer on ‘I like going to school’ and a ‘disagree’ answer on ‘school is boring’. This suggests
that the average pupil has a moderately positive attitude to school, confirming the results in the frequency table.
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