The _____ is the most often used descriptive statistic in psychology
a. frequency distribution c. mode
b. mean d. correlation
B
The mean is useful in and of itself, but it is also used when other statistics are calculated. Group means are often presented in graph form.
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a. it is extremely unusual. b. it only fits our expectations for another completely different context. c. it is unexpected, but really not that unusual. d. it is schema consistent.
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