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Professor Kellogg Calculates the Grades on the First Exam for Her

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Professor Kellogg calculates the grades on the first exam for her statistics class.She finds that students did really well, with most students scoring 98 or higher.What type of effect, which often corresponds to a negatively skewed distribution, is MOST likely to be influencing the shape of the distribution of scores?

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