Figure 5.10: Percentage correct score of syntactic awareness (easy reading passage) with a negative skew

The variable ‘corre’ is negatively skewed, the tail is extended to the left (−ve), and the majority of values are to the right In contrast to the variable ‘corrd’ it has negative

kurtosis (light tail), that is, too few values under the right tail of the distribution and the relative positioning of the mean, median and mode is reversed i.e., mode>median>mean.