The statistic that describes the average distance between the measurements in a frequency distribution and the mean of that distribution is the:

A) average distance of the individual scores from the mean of the distribution.
B) total distance of the individual scores from the mean of the distribution.
C) range of the distribution divided by the number of observations.
D) range of the distribution divided by the mean of the distribution.


A) average distance of the individual scores from the mean of the distribution.

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