Groupthink Can Be Prevented by a Leader Who

question 101

Multiple Choice

Groupthink can be prevented by a leader who

• A) is directive and makes his or her own position clear from the start.
• B) invites outside experts to critique a group's developing plans.
• C) tries to maintain high morale among group members.
• D) emphasizes the importance of the issue under discussion.

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Trimmed Mean

A method of averaging that involves removing a certain percentage of the largest and smallest values before calculating the mean.

Bootstrap Distribution

A statistical technique for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original dataset.

Observed Mean

The arithmetic average of observed values in a dataset, calculated as the sum of all observations divided by the number of observations.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps researchers determine the significance of their research results, indicating the probability of observing the collected data, or something more extreme, if the null hypothesis were true.