First, descriptive statistics are used to simplify the pages of data. For example, theresearcher could draw a graph showing the scores for each sample or compute the averagescore for each sample. Note that descriptive methods provide a simplified, organizeddescription of the scores. In this example, the students taught by method A averaged 76on the standardized test, and the students taught by method B averaged only 71.Once the researcher has described the results, the next step is to interpret the