If You Are Writing for a Lay Audience and Must

question 14

Multiple Choice

If you are writing for a lay audience and must clarify a term, you can provide a sentence definition that includes

• A)the term, type, and distinguishing characteristics.
• B)acronyms and abbreviations.
• C)examples.
• D)procedures and descriptions.

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Definitions:

Variability

Refers to the extent to which data points in a dataset differ from each other and from the mean.

Distribution

The way in which values of a variable or a set of variables are spread or dispersed across a range.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set differ from each other and from the mean of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean.