Please select either a normally distributed or a
skewed population:
Normal Distribution (mean= 5.46, SD= 1.61)
Skewed Distribution (mean= 5.50, SD= 1.64)
About The Sampling Calculator
The "skewed distribution" data used in this illustration come from an actual survey of over 1700 people. One question (of many) asked:
"On a scale of 1 to 7, '7' being Strongly Agree and '1' being Strongly
Disagree, how would you respond to the following statement:
I would highly recommend Biola to most prospective students."
This web site will let you test out sampling theory. Two sets of data,
each consisting of 1616 scores, can be sampled from based on the number
of subjects (n) per sampling you select. Then 1000 randomly selected
samplings
will be taken and calculated from either the skewed or normal distributions.
The results will be displayed numerically and in a graph. To get the full
effect, adjust your n and distribution (skewed or normal) several time
to view it's effect on the mean and range of scores.