A student conducts a brief survey at a public lecture and finds that most of the people attending the lecture are either over 50 or under 20 . There are very few people there aged 20 to 50 . If the student were to graph the ages in groups of 10 (e.g. 10 to 20; 20 to 30; 30 to 40, etc), the distribution would look _____
a. normal c. skewed
b. bimodal d. uniform
B
There are two modes: very young people and very old people.
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a. introduction b. method c. results d. discussion
The absolute threshold tends to ____
a. ?be the same for everybody b. ?vary from person to person c. ?vary more from time to time than from person to person d. ?be quite a bit different for males than for females
Nature's "default setting" is to make every mammal a female in its external anatomy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following procedures can be used to determine the reliability of ethnographic and clinical studies?
A) Responses to the same measures can be compared on separate occasions. B) Researchers can measure the quantitative scores yielded by these two methods. C) Answers on different halves of the same measure can be compared by judges. D) Judges can see if they agree with the researcher that the patterns and themes identified are grounded in evidence and are plausible.