Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that __________
a) follows the normal curve.
b) has a positive skew.
c) has a negative skew.
d) appears bimodal with two peaks of high frequency.
a Explanation: Most standardized tests of intelligence have a distribution of scores that
follows the normal curve; in other words, most of the scores are clustered around the mean, and the number of scores decreases the farther away from the mean they go in either direction.
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