Statistics Quest

Practice

Practise until it sticks

Choose a topic, a skill or a difficulty. Calculation exercises have new versions with fresh numbers once you have solved them, so you can practise the method rather than memorise an answer.

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Application, difficulty 2 of 3

Summarising a Likert item

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In the engagement_survey data, summarise q5_workload (“My workload is manageable”, 1 = strongly disagree … 5 = strongly agree) the ordinal way. Skipped answers are blank (missing) — leave them out.

(a) What is the median answer? (b) What percentage of those who answered chose 1 or 2 (disagree)? Give 1 decimal place.

Data: engagement_survey · Open in the lab to explore and calculate.