Which of the Following Statements Describes the Typology of a Typical

question 6

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements describes the typology of a typical serial killer?

• A)white female in her 40s-50s who targets strangers far away from home and work
• B)white male in his 20s-30s who targets strangers near his home or work
• C)black female in her 30s-40s who targets acquaintances near her home or work
• D)black male in his 30s-40s who targets acquaintances far away from home and work

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

Outliers

Data points that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population, often indicating a measurement or transcription error, or a novel phenomenon.

Variance

Measures the variability or spread of a set of data points around their mean; it's calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and organize the information in a data set to describe its various features, such as mean or standard deviation, without drawing inferences about the population.