Collecting and Organizing Data Vocabulary

A systematic influence that makes results unfair or unrepresentative.

Facts, observations, measurements, or information collected for a purpose.

The process of gathering information for a specific purpose.

A method of collecting data by changing one variable and measuring the effect on another.

Information collected using tools to determine size, amount, length, mass, or another quantity.

Information collected by watching or noticing something.

The entire group being studied.

Data collected directly by the investigator.

Data that describes qualities or characteristics rather than numbers.

Data that consists of numbers and can be counted or measured.