When Comparing Themselves to Others, Most People Choose to Compare

question 8

Multiple Choice

When comparing themselves to others, most people choose to compare themselves to people who are ____.

• A) much better than they are
• B) much worse than they are
• C) slightly better than they are
• D) slightly worse than they are

Conduct and interpret hypothesis tests for two independent population means.

Interpret confidence intervals for the difference between two population means.

Understand the assumptions underlying t-tests for independent samples.

Determine and apply the rejection region in hypothesis testing.

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