An important advantage of the standard deviation is that it can be used to "standardize" scores in a way that gives them greater meaning
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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What will be an ideal response?
In his best-selling book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner argued that behaviour is:
A) an outcome of the innate capacity of persons to choose freely. B) partly the result of a limited free will that has evolved as a result of natural selection. C) completely determined by genetic factors and free will is an illusion. D) determined largely by its consequences and free will is an illusion.
The mean attention span for adults in a certain village is 15 minutes with a standard deviation of 6.4 . The mean of all possible samples of size 30, taken from that population equals _________
a. 15 c. 30 b. 0.50 d. 2.34
Scarlett grew up in the United States and Ai grew up in China. Based on research by Wang and colleagues, what might we expect if we asked them both to recall events from before they were 5 years old?
a. Scarlett will remember more events from before 5 years old and her earliest memory will be from an earlier age compared to Ai's memories. b. Ai will remember more events from before 5 years old and her earliest memory will be from an earlier age compared to Scarlett's memories. c. Ai will remember more events from before 5 years old but Scarlett's earliest memory will be from an earlier age compared to each other. d. Scarlett will remember more events from before 5 years old but Ai's earliest memory will be from an earlier age compared to each other.