What is an outlier?
A. A set of data outside the data file.
B. A single score (e.g., participant response) that is very different from others.
C. A score derived from a participant who has lied.
D. A variable that cannot be quantified.
Answer: B
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Reforms aimed at improving teacher training have emphasized that teachers have stronger backgrounds in the content areas in which they'll be teaching (such as people preparing to be math teachers having stronger backgrounds in math). This position is most strongly grounded in:
a. perennialism. b. essentialism. c. progressivism. d. social reconstructionism.
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a. involve concepts expressed with words and statistical hypotheses involve mathematical terms expressed with numbers b. involve mathematical terms expressed with numbers and statistical hypotheses involve concepts expressed with words c. involve population parameters while the statistical hypothesis involves sample parameters d. can be tested while the statistical hypothesis cannot be