Following the Mass Extinction at the End of the Mesozoic

question 3

Essay

Following the mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era, two groups of mammals, the_________and placentals, further evolved and diversified.

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Definitions:

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve, also known as a Gaussian distribution, representing the spread of a variable in a way that most values cluster around the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Raw Scores

The initial, unaltered scores obtained in an assessment before undergoing any transformation or normalization.

Test-retest Reliability

The consistency of a measure evaluated by testing the same individuals at two different points in time and comparing the scores.