When Are Open-Ended Questions Generally Most Useful

question 20

Multiple Choice

When are open-ended questions generally most useful?

• A) During the initial part of the interview.
• B) After several closed-ended questions have been asked.
• C) While designing the genogram.
• D) During the review of systems.

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Definitions:

Distribution

Refers to the way in which something is shared or spread out across a range or area, especially the arrangement of a statistical data set.

Negatively Skewed

A distribution of data where the tail on the left side of the distribution is longer or fatter than the right side, indicating that the bulk of the values lie to the right of the mean.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, also used in statistics to describe the spread of values in a dataset.

Kurtosis

A statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in relation to its overall shape, indicating the degree of outlier prominence.