Although People with High IQs Are Found Across Professional Fields

question 128

Multiple Choice

Although people with high IQs are found across professional fields, which professional group tends to obtain the highest average IQs?

• A) Electricians
• B) Law enforcement officers
• C) Social workers
• D) Professors

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion, indicating how spread out a set of data is around the mean, reflecting variability within the dataset.

True Differences

Genuine or actual disparities observed between groups or conditions in a study, as opposed to those arising from experimental error or bias.

Discriminant Validity

The degree to which a measurement tool is not correlated with variables from which it should theoretically differ.

Significant Correlations

Statistical relationships between two variables where the association is strong enough to not likely be due to chance.