What Was the Cold War

question 14

Multiple Choice

What was the Cold War?

• A) the armed conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in Siberia after World War II
• B) an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over different interests for Europe and the rest of the world
• C) another name for the Korean War during the early 1950s
• D) the war against segregation in the United States

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

The statistical metric that calculates the dispersion or spread of data points in a dataset around the average value.

Raw Score

An untreated score before manipulation or processing to make it a standard score, as must be done for all norm-referenced tests. Raw scores alone tell us little, if anything, about how a person has done on a test. We must take an individual’s raw score and do something to it to give it meaning.

Publisher Score

The score provided or established by the entity responsible for creating and distributing a test, indicating a test taker's performance relative to predefined criteria or norms.

Ordinal Scale

A scale of measurement in which the magnitude or rank order is implied; however, the distance between measurements is unknown.