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Scientists Have Used the Fossil Record to Estimate the Average

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Scientists have used the fossil record to estimate the average length of time that a species inhabits the Earth. How can this estimate be useful for assessing the impact of humans on the Earth's biological diversity?


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Normally Distributed Populations

Refers to groups or sets of data that follow a normal distribution, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve where most observations cluster around the mean.

Population Variances

A metric that quantifies the degree to which a set of values in a population varies.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on a large number of samples drawn from a specific population.

Unequal-variances T-test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups that do not have the same variance.

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