One Reason to Use Standard Scores Instead of Raw Scores

question 28

Multiple Choice

One reason to use standard scores instead of raw scores is:

• A) to calculate a correlation coefficient.
• B) to compare scores from two different distributions.
• C) to compare the standard deviation and the mean.
• D) all of these

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