Regarding the Experiment in Which Smoke Was Blown into a Room

question 405

Multiple Choice

Regarding the experiment in which smoke was blown into a room, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) The results of the experiment lend support to the idea that people in crowds usually keep their eyes to themselves.
• B) The students working in groups initially kept their eyes on their questionnaires and avoided looking at the smoke.
• C) When the students working in groups noticed the smoke, they looked to other people for clues as to what was happening.
• D) The students working alone in the room were more likely to wait before responding to the smoke.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variability or spread in a set of data points.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a set of numbers, indicating the extent of variation.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles, or the middle 50% of a data set.

Outliers

Data points that lie far outside the range of the majority of a data set, deviating significantly from other observations.