A third-party psychologist used the same assessment instruments as the defense expert (from Q4) to determine that an offender had a risk score of 24. Recall that the nationwide scores on this particular assessment have a mean of 20 points and a standard deviation of 4 points. How many standard deviations separate this third-party psychologist's score and the defense expert's score of 16 in the distribution?

ANSWER: the third party psychologist's score and the defense expert's score is 0.6827 standard deviations away from each other

Question 9. What percentage of scores fall between the risk assessment scores of the defense expert and the third-party psychologist?