What happens when extreme scores, called outliers, are present in our data set?
What will be an ideal response?
These outliers bias the mean toward the high or low end of the scale, depending on whether they are extremely high or extremely low.
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By 1960, the prejudice against women entering prestigious graduate schools of psychology had ended
a. True b. False
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