Samuel Woodward of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital is getting ready to write his annual report on the hospital and its patients. Which of the following titles would most accurately reflect the body of that report?
a. "No Cure, Little Hope"
b. "Exorcism Instead of Exercise"
c. "The Need for Greater Restraints Is Evident"
d. "High Rates of Successful Treatment of Insanity"
Answer: d.
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a. bimodal curve b. standardized curve c. normal distribution d. expected distribution
Elisabeth KüblerRoss's model of death and dying is based on
a. observations of terminally ill people and their families. b. case studies of the journals of terminally ill people. c. case studies of people with infamous deaths. d. interviews with people who work with the terminally ill – hospice workers, nurses, doctors, and chaplains. e. interviews with terminally ill people.
If you were told that the median of a distribution was greater than the mean, what would that tell you about the shape of the distribution?
a. It was negatively skewed. b. It was positively skewed. c. It was normal. d. It would tell you nothing about the shape of the distribution.
The ______ splits the distribution, such that half of the scores fall above and below this measure.
A. mean B. median C. mode D. outlier