The Fact That a Test Score Has a Normal Distribution

question 20

Multiple Choice

The fact that a test score has a normal distribution

• A) suggests that the test is biased.
• B) makes it relatively harder to assume that the test measures what it was intended to measure.
• C) makes it unlikely that the test is suitable for use with populations with psychological disturbances.
• D) makes the interpretation of tests scores simpler than would be the case if the test score had a non-normal distribution.

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