The Standard Deviation

question 62

Multiple Choice

The standard deviation

• A) indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores.
• B) reveals the degree of skew for a group of scores.
• C) is sensitive to scores at the extremes of a distribution of scores.
• D) is used to determine whether a data set is positively or negatively skewed.

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