Which of the following describes measures of relative standing?

A. They are descriptive statistics.
B. They compare the performance of an individual on one or more measures or tests with the entire population of individuals who took the same test.
C. They indicate where a given score falls in a distribution in relation to all other scores in all distributions.
D. They are referred to as norm-controlled scores.


Ans: B

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