If You Want to Compare Scores from One Distribution to Scores

question 52

Multiple Choice

If you want to compare scores from one distribution to scores from another distribution, you should ______.

• A) compare the directly
• B) compare z-scores computed from each
• C) compare the means of each distribution
• D) compare the square root of each value

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Definitions:

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