If We Wanted to See a Person's Relative Standing from Scores

question 12

Multiple Choice

If we wanted to see a person's relative standing from scores on two different tests,

• A) we would compare the person's raw scores to the means of each distribution.
• B) both of the person's raw scores would have to be transformed into z-scores.
• C) the standard deviations would have to be the same for both distributions.
• D) It cannot be done if the means and standards deviations are different for each distribution.

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