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Chapter 14: Analyzing Numerical Data
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. A ______ is anything that varies.
A. statistic
B. constant
C. variable
D. measurement
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Variables and Constants
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. A ______ is something that does not vary.
A. statistic
B. constant
C. variable
D. measurement
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Variables and Constants
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. ______ variables differ in kind but have no order or magnitude underlying their differences.
A. Categorical
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Nominal or Categorical Measures
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Academic majors such as psychology are ______ variables.
A. categorical
B. ordinal
C. interval
D. ratio
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Nominal or Categorical Measures
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. ______ measurement levels are for when the numbers ascribed to our classification possess order.
A. Categorical
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ordinal Measures
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. College professors are classified by rank with clear academic hierarchy between the levels. Which level of measurement is this?
B. ordinal
C. interval
D. ratio
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ordinal Measures
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. ______ a measure with no true zero point that has rank-ordered ordered attributes with a meaningful distance between them.
A. Categorical
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Interval-Level Measurement
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Temperature is an example of ______ measure due to the equal distance between each level.
A. categorical
B. ordinal
C. interval-level
D. ratio-level
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Interval-Level Measurement
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. ______ is a measure with an absolute and meaningful zero point and rank-ordered categories of values with meaningful intervals of difference between them.
B. Ordinal
C. Interval-level
D. Ratio-level
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ratio Measurement
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Inches are an example of ______ because there is a meaningful zero point and intervals and ratio differences are consistent.
A. categorical
B. ordinal
C. interval-level
D. ratio-level
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ratio Measurement
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. ______ is a technique that’s used to address what occurs when certain assumptions that are required by probability theory are violated.
A. Probability technique
B. Bonferroni technique
C. “Monte Carlo” computer simulation
D. Jackknifing
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement and Statistical Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. ______ statistics that are used to summarize sample data.
A. Descriptive
B. Inferential
C. Digital materials
D. Verbal materials
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descriptive Statistics
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. The ______ is the “typical” datum for each variable.
A. measure of central tendency
B. level of measurement
C. datum rate
D. datum range
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Measures of Central Tendency
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. The most frequently occurring category is the ______.
B. mean
C. median
D. range
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Mode
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. If most of the students in your class are 21 than the ______ age of your class is 21.
A. mode
B. mean
C. median
D. range
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Mode
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. The ______ is the centermost score in a distribution of scores, the score that splits a distribution of scores in half such that 50% of the scores lie above it and 50% lie below it.
B. mean
C. median
D. range
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Median
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Alice is in a reading group with other fourth graders. Fifty percent of the people in the reading group read at a third grade level and fifty percent are reading at a fifth grade level. What level is the median?
A. third grade
B. fourth grade
C. fifth grade
D. range
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Median
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. ______ is the arithmetic average of a group of scores computed by taking the sum of the values of all scores and dividing them by the total number of scores.
A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. Range
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Mean
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The average age of an assistant professor at the local college is 43. This is the ______ age of faculty.
A. mode
B. mean
C. median
D. range
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Mean
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. A ______ distribution is any distribution in which the two sides are essentially mirror images.
A. standard
B. symmetrical
C. skewed
D. variance
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Symmetry and Skew
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. ______ refers to an asymmetrical distribution.
B. Tail
C. Skewed
D. Variance
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Symmetry and Skew
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. ______ is a measure of dispersion representing the distance between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
A. Range
B. Mean
C. Mode
D. Standard deviation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Range
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. ______ is a measure of dispersion, expressed in the standard units, that indicates the average distance that any given score in a distribution of scores will be from the mean score in that distribution.
A. Range
B. Mean
C. Mode
D. Standard deviation
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Standard Deviations and Variances
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. ______ allows us to assess whether two categorical variables are associated more strongly than would be expected based on chance variation alone.
A. Chi-square
B. Cross-tabulations
C. Scatterplot
D. Bonferroni technique
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Chi-Square Distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. ______ involves splitting the adopted probability required for significance across the entire range of comparisons to be made.
A. Chi-square
B. Cross-tabulations
C. Scatterplot
D. Bonferroni technique
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Error Rates When Undertaking Multiple Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. The simplest way to measure an object is simply to categorize it.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Nominal or Categorical Measures
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Levels of measurements do not impact the range of mathematical operations you can legitimately perform on your data.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement and Statistical Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The mode identifies the score or scores that are “atypical” in the sense that they represent “the least frequently occurring category.”
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Mode
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Extreme scores are also known as outliers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How to Lie With Statistics
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Pearson product–moment correlation coefficient is otherwise known as Pearson’s r.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Limits of Contingency Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Scatterplot diagrams are a useful way to see what kinds of relationships might exist between your variables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Scatter-plot Diagrams
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Percentages are theoretical.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: A Slightly Different Way of Making Comparisons
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Deviations computed in terms of standard deviation units “S-scores.”
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Error Rates When Undertaking Multiple Analyses
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Compare and contrast the different levels of measurement and give an example of each measurement level.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Compare and contrast descriptive and inferential statistics and discuss how to decide which is approach to use.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Descriptive Statistics | Inferential Statistics
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Summarize the examination of relationships among continuous variables and discuss the statistical techniques used to analyze them.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Examining Relationships Among Continuous Variables
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Summarize the examination of differences between categories and discuss the statistical techniques used to analyze them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Examining Differences Between Categories
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Summarize how to handle error rates when undertaking multiple analyses and discuss the common techniques.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Error Rates When Undertaking Multiple Analyses
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Consider your role as a student at your university. Identify one issue that you think students are concerned about (e.g., parking). Prepare a brief questionnaire to use to survey students regarding this issue. There should be at least one question per each level of measurement. Create a hypothetical frequency distribution and compute descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency for your data.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Consider the idea of variables and constants and include a discussion of what variables and constants exist in a typical classroom setting.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Variables and Constants
Difficulty Level: Medium
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