A Math Teacher,wishing to Include a Practical Question on a Test,asks

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Multiple Choice

A math teacher,wishing to include a practical question on a test,asks students to calculate how many games out of first place a baseball team is,given its won/lost record and that of the first-place team.After the test,a student complains that the question tested knowledge of baseball,not math.The student is criticizing the ____ of the question.

• A) validity
• B) reliability
• C) practical nature
• D) clarity

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution associated with a particular statistic derived from a random sample.

Simple Random Samples

Samples drawn in such a way that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected, ensuring that the sample represents the population well.

Proportion

A statistic that measures the fraction of the total number of items in a set that are of a particular category or characteristic.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the occurrence of rare events or the number of events in fixed intervals of time or space.