Prevalence Figures Are Suspected of Being Inaccurate Because

question 14

Multiple Choice

Prevalence figures are suspected of being inaccurate because

• A) there are difficulties and inconsistencies in definitions from state to state.
• B) schools do not submit accurate counts to the state departments.
• C) parents do not desire to reveal their child's disability.
• D) not all students with learning disabilities are served in special education settings.

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Definitions:

Level Of Happiness

A measure or assessment of how much joy or contentment individuals experience in their lives.

Skill Level

A measure of a person's proficiency or competency in a particular area or task.

Standard Deviations

A gauge of the degree of distribution or deviation of values in a collection, reflecting the distance of the values from their central value.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and describe the features of a dataset through measures such as mean, median, and standard deviation.