Which of the Following Is Most Likely a Parameter as Opposed

question 82

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most likely a parameter as opposed to a statistic?

• A)The average score of the first five students completing an assignment.
• B)The proportion of females registered to vote in a county.
• C)The average height of people randomly selected from a database.
• D)The proportion of trucks stopped yesterday that were cited for bad brakes.

---

Definitions:

Situationism

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations and environmental factors than by personal traits or motivations.

Relative Consistency

The degree to which an individual's behavior remains stable in different contexts over time.

True Interaction

An authentic exchange or engagement between people, which is genuine and not artificial or simulated in any way.

Suppressor Effect

A statistical phenomenon where a variable increases the predictive validity of another variable by controlling for or suppressing irrelevant variance.