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question 84

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions
This figure depicts the typical relation found between a person's age (in years) and his or her reaction time in a simple reaction time task (e.g., time to press a button when a light turns green) .
Figure: Age and Reaction Time
-(Figure: Age and Reaction Time) If one were to assume with certainty that a person who is 2 years old has a reaction time of 9,000 milliseconds, which error would be made?

• A) sneaky sample lie
• B) interpolation lie
• C) extrapolation lie
• D) inaccurate values lie

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Definitions:

Slope

In mathematics, the slope is the measure of the steepness or incline of a line, calculated as the ratio of the vertical change to the horizontal change between two points on the line.

Regression Line

A line drawn through the set of datapoints that represents the best fit of the data according to a particular statistical criterion, often used in linear regression analysis.

Linear Relationship

A type of association where the change in one variable is directly proportional to the change in another variable.

Significance Level

The likelihood of incorrectly dismissing the null hypothesis in a statistical analysis, commonly represented by alpha, when it in fact holds true.