Fear-Arousing Messages Have Proven Potent in Convincing People to

question 109

Multiple Choice

Fear-arousing messages have proven potent in convincing people to

• A) cut down on smoking.
• B) brush their teeth more often.
• C) drive carefully.
• D) all of these choices

Recognize how sample size and population standard deviation affect the shape of sampling distributions.

Use statistical methods to estimate probabilities associated with sampling distributions.

Interpret the relationship between population distributions and sampling distributions.

Analyze the role of normal distribution in sampling theory.

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