We Select for Admission to a College the 50% of Applicants

question 46

Multiple Choice

We select for admission to a college the 50% of applicants with the highest admissions test scores. At the end of the freshman year, we determine the correlation between the admission test and freshman GPA. This is an ideal circumstance for observing the effect of ___.

• A) range restriction
• B) heteroscedasticity
• C) local norms
• D) split-half reliability

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