1)Mary asks her friends on Facebook for recommendations for the best restaurants in Chicago. The results are then placed in a table for review. What does the data represent?

	time-series data
	cross-sectional data
	numerical data
	quantitative data

2)What measure is the sum all the values and divide by n?

	Mean
	Median
	Mode
	Central Tendency

3)What is the sixth step in the scientific method is to identify the problem?

	Identify the Problem
	Form the hypothesis
	Analyze the data
	Communicate the results

4)The people of Appleton, WI represent the _____, whereas we analyze the education level of a subset or _____ to make inferences about the population.

	information; cross-section
	population; information
	items; sample
	population; sample

5)What is the fifth step in the scientific method is to identify the problem?

	Identify the Problem
	Form the hypothesis
	Analyze the data
	Communicate the results

6)What is the most frequently occurring value in a data set?

	Mean
	Median
	Mode
	Central Tendency

7)What algorithms are able to surmise the meaning of multilayered data representations to power such familiar applications as voice recognition or search engines?

	Artificial Intelligence
	Deep learning
	Machine Learning
	Decision Automation

8)Unstructured data is best defined as

	not conforming to a predefined, row-column format.
	not conforming to a way to analyze data.
	conforming to a predefined, row-column format.
	conforming to a managing velocity.

9)What is the first step in the scientific method is to identify the problem?

	Identify the Problem
	Form the hypothesis
	Analyze the data
	Communicate the results

10)What research tool focuses on collecting and summarizing research evidence that addresses a pre-specified research question?

	Systematic reviews
	Meta-analyses
	Hypothesis
	Dependability of evidence

11)What research tool makes use of statistical methods to summarize the empirical results of those studies?

	Meta-analyses
	Systematic reviews
	Hypothesis
	Dependability of evidence

12)What is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers?

	Mean
	Median
	Mode
	Central Tendency

13)What can be defined as facts or other organized information presented to support or justify beliefs or inferences?

	Evidence
	Operational data
	Theoretical research
	Scientific method

14)What type of data is derived from electronic transaction processing and communication exchanges?

	Evidence
	Operational data
	Theoretical research
	Scientific method

15)What is a set of procedures consisting of systematic measurement and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses?

	Evidence
	Operational data
	Theoretical research
	Scientific method

16)Cross-source insight verification which enhances the efficacy of decisions by strengthening the credibility and dependability of available evidence is called

	pooling
	doubling rule
	Informational Triangulation
	best practices

17)What provides the most dependable means of drawing conclusions from often diverse opinions and forecasts of individual experts?

	pooling
	doubling rule
	Informational Triangulation
	best practices

18)What can assume an infinite number of possible values, usually bounded by two extremes, and have to be encoded as numbers?

	Exploratory data analysis
	Categorical variable
	Continuous variable
	Informational Domain Specification

19)What is a comprehensive data repository encompassing enterprise-wide data from across many or all operational areas?

	Empirical data
	Data warehouse
	Data mart
	Standard error

20)What applications provide computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed?

	Artificial Intelligence
	Deep learning
	Machine Learning
	Decision Automation

21)Which of the following variables are categorical and which are numerical? If the variable is numerical, then specify whether the variable is discrete or continuous.

A. Points scored in a football game

B. Racial composition of a high school classroom

C. Heights of 15-years-old

22)Explain social cognition?

23)Explain standard normal distribution.

24)List the six steps of the scientific method?

25)Explain machine learning.