The Way That Researchers Attempt to Eliminate Cultural and Gender

question 36

Multiple Choice

The way that researchers attempt to eliminate cultural and gender bias from IQ tests is to

• A) identify and remove questions that show item bias.
• B) create different tests for use by different groups.
• C) increase the percentage of verbal items on tests and decrease the number of performance items.
• D) plot the distribution of test results on different charts for different groups and only compare people from within the same group.

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Definitions:

Sign Test Applications

The uses of a nonparametric test that is used to evaluate the difference between the medians of two paired samples.

Normal Approximation

A method used to approximate the distribution of various sample statistics to the normal distribution under certain conditions.

Nonzero Differences

Refers to the outcomes in statistical analyses where the differences between compared measures or values are not equal to zero, indicating variability or effect.

Binomial Distribution

The binomial distribution is a probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood of obtaining a fixed number of successes in a fixed number of trials in a binary context, where there are only two possible outcomes.