What Has Been Observed About Mentoring Programs

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Multiple Choice

What has been observed about mentoring programs?

• A)They should not be formalized if benefits are to be received.
• B)They may help women and minorities up the corporate ladder.
• C)They have tended to work only for men because of the good old boys' network.
• D)They have forced women to form women's networks.

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th (third quartile) and 25th (first quartile) percentiles, measuring the spread of the middle 50% of data.

Coefficient of Variation

A standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, expressed as a ratio of the standard deviation to the mean.

Extreme Values

Data points that significantly differ from other observations. They can be unusually high or low and may be considered outliers.

Median

The middle value in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers.