The Professor Announced the First Day of Class: "Students Are

question 104

Multiple Choice

The professor announced the first day of class: "Students are not good at meeting deadlines.I guarantee you that someone will email me the day after a due date and ask if I will accept a paper for partial credit." Yesterday the first paper was due in the professor's class.He just checked his email and a student inquired whether the paper could be turned in for partial credit today.This is an example of

• A)self-fulfilling prophecy.
• B)self-enhancement bias.
• C)self-effacement bias.
• D)selective perception.

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a dataset, found by adding all the numbers in the set and dividing by the count of numbers.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that describes the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using the standard deviation.

Mean

The mean of a series of numbers, determined by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the series.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a given level of confidence.