You Believe That Short Men Have a Tendency to Be

question 24

Multiple Choice

You believe that short men have a tendency to be insecure. The concept of illusory correlation implies that you will

• A)overestimate the frequency of insecure short men.
• B)underestimate the frequency of insecure short men.
• C)accurately estimate the frequency of insecure short men.
• D)falsely assume that tall men are naturally secure.

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability, defined as the difference between the first and third quartiles, describing the middle 50% of a data set.

25th Percentile

A value below which 25% of the data falls.

75th Percentile

A value below which 75% of the data points in a dataset fall, used as a measure of dispersion.

Symmetric Data

Data that are evenly distributed around the center, showing mirror-image properties on both sides of the median.