Critical Thinking Involves Keeping an Open Mind

question 160

True/False

Critical thinking involves keeping an open mind.

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Definitions:

Preliminary Analysis

An initial examination of data to check for possible errors, understand basic trends and assumptions, and determine the most appropriate statistical tests.

Approximately Normal

Describes a data distribution that closely follows a normal distribution, even though it may not be perfectly normal.

Outliers

Observations that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population.

Approximately Normal

Describes a data distribution that is close to a normal distribution, but not perfectly symmetrical, often applicable in large sample sizes due to the Central Limit Theorem.