You have sampled the population of undergraduate students in the education department at your institution to gauge understanding of the autistic spectrum in adults on a 5-point Likert scale. Your sample is plotted against a mean given as 2.6. What is a definition of the standard error?

A. Standard error = standard deviation
B. Standard error = mean
C. Standard error = number of possible sample populations
D. Standard error = standard deviation of sample means


Answer: D

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