QUESTION 7

1.Which level of measurement is concerned only with the characteristics of an outcome that fits into a category?

Ordinal

Interval

Rank

Nominal

QUESTION 8

1.Which of the following refers to distribution's curve that is relatively flat in comparison to a normal curve?

Platykurtic

Leptokurtic

Negatively skewed

Positively skewed

QUESTION 9

1.This measure of central tendency can be considered the most precise:

Mode

Median

Mean

Geometric Mean

QUESTION 10

1.Statisticians in many different professional areas find themselves using _______ techniques to answer different questions.

Varied

New

The Same

Experimental

QUESTION 11

1._______ is the type of validity that examines how well a test outcome is consistent with a criterion that occurs in the present.

Content validity

Predictive validity

Concurrent criterion validity

Test-retest validity

QUESTION 12

1.If a distribution is significantly distorted to one side or the other of a mean, it is called:

Variability

Outliers

Skew

Percentile