Which Statement About Gifted Children Is FALSE

question 170

Multiple Choice

Which statement about gifted children is FALSE?

• A)Gifted children are usually as well adjusted as peers.
• B)Profoundly gifted children are more likely to become major contributors to their fields of work than moderately intelligent children.
• C)Extraordinary intelligence does not appear to make a person's life worse.
• D)Gifted children tend to have extraordinary skill in a specialized domain instead of all domains of intelligence.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution that is symmetric around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

F-distribution

A probability distribution used in analysis of variance (ANOVA), depicting ratios of variances to assess the significance of group differences.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, used when the assumptions of the ANOVA are not met.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of a statistical distribution that is used to determine the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis in hypothesis testing.