A friend of yours assigned a code of 1 to "male" and a code of 2 to "female" on the variable sex. Your friend asked the computer to compute the average score on sex. The computer printout contained the following information: mean=1.38, standard deviation=.43, median=1.4, and mode=1.0 . You advise your friend that the best measure(s) of central tendency is(are) _____
a. mean
b. standard deviation
c. median
d. mode
e. the mean, the median, and the mode are equally appropriate
d
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Having casual sexual encounters without commitment is called ________
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Traditionally, people of color and white women have been excluded from powerful "old-boy" social networks
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
__________ refers to an error in logic that results when comparing two groups that are different, assuming they are the same, and drawing an inference based on that false assumption?
A) Observer effect B) Confirmation bias C) Compositional fallacy D) Secondary analysis