Suppose That Four Students Are Working on a Group Project

question 46

Multiple Choice

Suppose that four students are working on a group project regarding colonialism in today's Democratic Republic of Congo.Who is MOST likely to engage in social loafing?

• A)Tom, an older student who is the only group member to have actually lived in the DRC.
• B)Amber, a history student who is obsessed with being top of the class
• C)Aniya, who is convinced that most of the other group members are incompetent
• D)Mandla, who is certain that he will get an 'A' in the class no matter how he performs on the group project

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Definitions:

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, also used in statistics to describe the spread of values in a dataset.

Kurtosis

A statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in relation to its overall shape, indicating the degree of outlier prominence.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated as the sum of all values divided by the total number of values.