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Answer: D 2. A researcher conducts a study to find out how many times people had visited a doctor in the previous year. Five people participated in the study and the numbers of visits they had made were 2, 5, 7, 4 and 2. Which of the following statements is true? [TY6.2]
Answer: C 3. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true if the distribution of a variable is severely skewed? [TY6.3]
Answer: D 4. If X is a variable, which of the following is not measured in the same units as X? [TY6.4]
Answer: D 5. If scores on a variable are normally distributed, which of the following statements is false? [TY6.5]
Answer: A 6. Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency? [TY6.6]
Answer: B 7. The shaded bars in the histogram below represent the times (rounded to the nearest 10 milliseconds) that 50 people take to react to a loud noise. Which of the following statements is not true?
Answer: A 8. ‘Root mean squared deviate’ could be used as another name for which measure of dispersion? [TY6.8]
Answer: D 9. A researcher measures a variable whose distribution she observes to be normally distributed. On this basis which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
Answer: C 10. Which of the following is a measure of central tendency?
Answer: E 11. The SPSS output below is from a study in which the scores for the variable “Survey_Point” could vary between 0 and 30. Looking at the distribution of frequencies, which of the following statements is true?
Answer: B 12. The SPSS output below is from a study in which the scores for the variable “Survey_Point” could vary between 0 and 30. Looking at the distribution of frequencies, which of the following statements is true?
Answer: B
13. “A variable that can be treated as if there were no breaks or steps between its different levels (e.g., reaction time in milliseconds).” What type of variable is this a glossary definition of?
Answer: D 14. “A measure reflecting distinct categories that have different names but the categories are not numerically related to one another.” What type of measure is this a glossary definition of?
Answer: B 15. “The spread of scores across levels of a variable.” What is this a glossary definition of?
Answer: A 16. “Scores that are very different from the typical value for a distribution. Because they are very different from the central tendency of a distribution they contribute a great deal to the amount of dispersion in the distribution.” What does this glossary entry define?
Answer: C |