On Surveys, Subjects Can Try to Present a Positive Image

question 11

Multiple Choice

On surveys, subjects can try to present a positive image of themselves, a problem referred to as

• A) experimenter bias
• B) social desirability bias
• C) question ambiguity
• D) good subject bias

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Definitions:

Skewed

A description of a distribution that is not symmetrical, typically with a longer tail on one side of the peak than the other.

Outliers

In statistics, outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially indicating experimental error or variability.

IQR

The Interquartile Range, a measure of statistical dispersion being the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles.

Shape

In statistics, the geometric configuration of a data distribution, which can be described by terms like symmetrical, skewed, or bimodal.