When Completing a Verbal Aptitude Test,members of an Ethnic Minority

question 34

Multiple Choice

When completing a verbal aptitude test,members of an ethnic minority group are particularly likely to perform below their true ability levels if they believe that the test

• A)is a measure of academic intelligence.
• B)assesses their interests as well as their abilities.
• C)is biased against members of their own ethnic group.
• D)will yield scores that are distributed in a normal curve.

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Definitions:

First Quartile

The middle number between the smallest number and the median of the dataset, dividing the data set into lower 25% and upper 75%.

Percentile

A measure that indicates the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls.

10th Percentile

A value below which 10 percent of the data falls.

Measurements

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