One Relative Strength of the ______ as a Measure of Central

question 118

Multiple Choice

One relative strength of the ______ as a measure of central tendency is that it ______.

• A) mean; is based on all of the scores in a distribution
• B) mode; describes skewed distributions
• C) median; describes bimodal distributions
• D) mean; is not affected by outliers

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Definitions:

Factorial Design

An experimental design used to evaluate the effects of two or more independent variables on a set of dependent variables.

Independent Variables

Independent variables are the factors in an experiment that are manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe their effects on the dependent variable.

Interaction

Interaction can describe the reciprocal effect of two or more variables on each other in a study, or the communication and influence between individuals in social psychology.

Factorial Design

An experimental setup that allows researchers to study the effects of two or more independent variables on a dependent variable simultaneously.