The System of Hiring and Promotion Based on the Results

question 88

Multiple Choice

The system of hiring and promotion based on the results of competitive tests, education, and other qualifications rather than politics and personal consideration was called the ______.

• A)merit system
• B)civil service system
• C)spoils system
• D)front lobby system

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Measures of Dispersion

Statistical indicators that describe the spread or variability of a data set.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a given set of data.