What Is a Serious Objection to "Consensus Scoring" on a Test

question 17

Multiple Choice

What is a serious objection to "consensus scoring" on a test?

• A)It does not recognize that people can have differences of opinion.
• B)​It requires time, effort, and expensive equipment.
• C)​It does not produce scores that follow the normal distribution.
• D)​It gives much credit for a popular but wrong answer.

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Definitions:

Normality

Normality is a statistical assumption that data or errors are distributed in a normal (or Gaussian) pattern, centered around the mean with symmetrical variability.

Pie Chart

A pie chart is a circular graph divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion, where the arc length of each slice is proportional to the quantity it represents.

Homoscedasticity

A condition in which the variance within a dataset remains constant across different levels of an independent variable.

Error Variable

A variable in statistical models that captures the difference between observed and predicted values.