If You Wanted to Develop a New Occupational Interest Inventory

question 70

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to develop a new occupational interest inventory, which of the following would be the best way to begin?

• A) Find out what specific skills are needed to be successful in various jobs.
• B) Ask job seekers what appeals to them about the jobs they're considering.
• C) Examine the interests of people who enjoy their work in various occupations.
• D) Survey people about the aspects of their jobs that are most important to them.

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Definitions:

Distribution

A mathematical description of observed or theoretical frequencies of occurrence of different possible outcomes in a dataset.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic, used to make inferences about a population.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the values together and dividing by the number of values.

Number of Successes

This term refers to the count of times an outcome of interest occurs in a statistical experiment.