Why Did Some Experts Doubt the Claim That Kenneth Bianchi,the

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Multiple Choice

Why did some experts doubt the claim that Kenneth Bianchi,the "Hillside Strangler," had multiple personality disorder?

• A)An expert in hypnosis tricked Bianchi into feigning new symptoms.
• B)There was no known trauma during his childhood.
• C)Bianchi did not know the names of the personalities.
• D)Bianchi's poor verbal skills made his responses difficult to comprehend.

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Definitions:

Right-Skewed

A distribution that has a longer tail on the right side of the peak, indicating that the majority of the data points lie to the left of the mean.

Symmetric

In statistics, symmetric refers to a distribution where the data is evenly distributed around the mean, with the left and right sides mirroring each other.

Outlier

An outlier is a data point that is significantly different from the others in a dataset, often lying far outside the range of the majority of the data.

Box and Whisker Plot

A graphical representation of data that shows the distribution's median, quartiles, and outliers.