Box 53 Teaches Readers to Calculate a Percentage Difference Without a a Reference

question 10

Multiple Choice

Box 5.3. teaches readers to calculate a Percentage Difference without a reference group and:

• A) The authors recommend that this approach be used
• B) The authors recommend that the calculations for a percentage difference with a reference group be used
• C) The "answers" rendered do not change by using or not using a reference group
• D) The authors stated that a reference group should never be used because it can support tribalism

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Definitions:

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation, often testable by experimentation.

Explanandum

Rephrased: The subject or occurrence that an explanation is attempting to account for in research or analysis.

Outcome

In probability theory, a single, non-compound result among a range of possible results.

Event

An outcome or set of outcomes for which we want to know the probability.