Predictive Analytics

question 33

Multiple Choice

Predictive analytics:

• A) summarizes data into meaningful charts and reports that can be standardized or customized.
• B) identifies the best alternatives to minimize or maximize an objective.
• C) uses data to determine a course of action to be executed in a given situation.
• D) detects patterns in historical data and extrapolates them forward in time.

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University, where students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards to explore the effects of perceived power.

Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.