Whether a Field of Study Is a Science Is Determined

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Multiple Choice

Whether a field of study is a science is determined by the:

• A) credentials of those who specialize in that field.
• B) methods used to collect information in that field.
• C) technological sophistication of the equipment used in that field.
• D) subject matter of that field.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are spread, showing the distance of the values from the average.

Probability

The measure or quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

NORM.DIST

A function in statistics that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the precision of a sample mean.