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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Why would a nurse know anything about statistics?
Ideally a non-statistician researcher should have an understanding of what the statistics mean and how they are used, even if they don't have a technical understanding.
For example, I don't understand how a SD is calculated, but I understand that it gives me an idea of the variance or spread in the data.
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Would it help to know what "normal" means? For example, a normal blood pressure is within one SD of the mean (if that's what it is, she couldn't tell me)?