A researcher conducts a study on cognitive processing speed and records the finishing positions (e.g. 1st1^{\text{st}}1st, 2nd2^{\text{nd}}2nd, 3rd3^{\text{rd}}3rd) of participants completing a complex three-dimensional puzzle.
Which of the following descriptive statistics is the most appropriate measure of dispersion to describe the spread of this dataset?
Standard deviation
Variance
Mean
Range
513 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Data recording, analysis and presentation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.