For You SPSS The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences . SDA Survey Documentation and Analysis . GIS Geographic Information Systems. Frequencies I get it.
Frequencies are just group snapshots.
They show me how many of the people I studied were in each of the categories that I created. I see, this is the same foolishness, except with nominal data. You mean that in order to draw conclusions about large groups on the basis of what I find in my personal experience or in my study, I have to make sure that the people I apply my results to are really like the people I studied. I just have to be sure I don't study laboratory rats, and then extend my conclusions from their behavior to that of college sophomores. After all, students in college classrooms are not likely, if admissions standards work, to be deadbeats.