Which One of the Following Illustrates Personal Interest Rather Than

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following illustrates personal interest rather than situational interest?

• A) Jennifer is puzzled when a peeled hardboiled egg is suddenly sucked into a bottle after the teacher lights a fire inside the bottle.
• B) Trent gets totally wrapped up in the adventure novel he is reading during his free time in class.
• C) Riley can't wait to find out what's in the big cardboard box his teacher has brought to school today.
• D) Victoria loves ballet and wants to become a ballerina when she grows up.

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Definitions:

Categorical Variables

Categorical variables are types of variables in statistics that represent categories, possessing qualitative properties that differentiate one group from another.

One-sample Chi-square

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the observed frequencies and the expected frequencies in one categorical dataset.

Two-sample Chi-square

The Two-sample Chi-square test is a statistical method used to determine if there is a significant difference between the distributions of two categorical variables.

Expected Values

The predicted value of a variable, computed as a weighted average of all possible values.