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A 7-Year Old Girl Is Having Some Severe Trouble in School

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A 7-year old girl is having some severe trouble in school with some basic exercises that will help her learn to read. The school counselor suggests she may have a form agnosia. What sorts of tests could you devise to determine what sort of agnosia she might have?


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Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that provides a bound on the probability that the value of a random variable lies within a certain number of standard deviations of the mean.

Observations

Data collected or noticed during an experiment or study, typically recorded for further analysis.

Percentile

A value below which a certain percent of observations fall, used as a measure to understand the distribution of data in a dataset.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem stating that for any set of data, the proportion of results within k standard deviations from the mean is at least 1-(1/k^2) for k>1.

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