Why are z scores also called standardized scores?
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Ans: They allow us to compare scores across different measurements. In addition, when scores are normally distributed, z scores allow us to pinpoint one score relative to all other scores (that is, to determine the percentile rank of a particular score), regardless of how the data were measured.
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