Which of the Following Statements About Background Information Is False

question 90

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about background information is false?

• A)Applicants with weak credit scores are more likely to be dishonest employees.
• B)The most prevalent distortion in a résumé is lying about education.
• C)Many employers don't give honest assessments of former employees.
• D)People sometimes attempt to cover gaps in employment history.
• E)People lie about their ages in their application information.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A point on the scale of a statistical distribution that is used to determine the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis in hypothesis testing.

One-sample T-test

A statistical test used to compare the mean of a single sample to a known average or standard value.

Parametric Counterpart

Refers to statistical tests or models that assume a certain distribution shape for the underlying data, as opposed to non-parametric methods which do not.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.