Research on Talent and Expertise Suggests That

question 75

Multiple Choice

Research on talent and expertise suggests that:

• A) practice alone determines who will become an expert.
• B) it is easy to determine how much practice an individual will need in order to become an expert.
• C) people need to born with talent in order to become experts.
• D) the total amount of practice is an important variable in determining whether a person will become an expert.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is symmetrically shaped around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the count of these numbers.

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the distribution is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that the mean is greater than the median.

Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance, measuring the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean.