The Traditional View About the Normal Curve in Psychology Is

question 15

Multiple Choice

The traditional view about the normal curve in psychology is that normal curves are

• A)rare in nature,but often occur in psychological studies.
• B)common in nature,but psychological measures rarely yield normally distributed scores.
• C)almost guaranteed because of the way psychological measures are developed.
• D)rare both in nature and in the distributions of scores in psychological research.

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