The What? The Dubs...

       
                                         

            When you are looking at data you should always look at their context. To know the context, you should think of The Who, The What, The When, The Where, The Why, and sometimes How. When you are thinking of the "who", think if you were to answer a survey you are a respondent; if you are a person in an experiment you are a participant; if you are an animal, ppllants or some object, you are an experiment. For the "what", you are looking at two kind of variables which are categorical and quantitaive. Categorical variables are variables that have characterisctics and don't have numbers. Quantitative variables includes numbers, units, and you have to ask can it be measured. For quantitative data, there are two categories which are discrete and continuous. Discrete can be counted like the number of students in a classroom and continuous can be measure like the temperature, height, or weight.