What Is One of the Major Reasons That Psychologists Report

question 206

Multiple Choice

What is one of the major reasons that psychologists report results publicly?

• A)to comply with legal requirements
• B)to identify all the extraneous variables
• C)to allow researchers to replicate experiments
• D)to explain research results so that non-psychologists can understand

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The measure of variability which is the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile in a dataset, indicating the spread of the middle 50%.

Percentiles

Values or scores below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.

Decile

A statistical measure dividing a dataset into ten equal parts, each containing 10% of the data points.

Median

The middle value in a set of data, where half the numbers are above it and half are below, when the data is arranged in ascending order.