Which of the Following Best Describes a Field Audit

question 68

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes a field audit?

• A) observing racial interactions, between strangers, in public situations
• B) sending two otherwise similar, but racially different, subjects into similar situations
• C) observing how public institutions, such as banks, treat people of different races and ethnicities
• D) sending people of the same race, but with significant differences in education or income, into similar situations

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Definitions:

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetrical bell-shaped curve representing the distribution of a variable that has been standardized; it has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

Area

A measure of the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape in a plane, often measured in square units.

Z-score

A numerical indicator that shows how a specific value compares to the average of a set of values by measuring the number of standard deviations it is from the mean.