Explain the given answers on Stats Questions
To gain points for the Quizzes, let’s take a Mastery Approach to Learning. I will need you to show me that of the questions you got wrong on those two quizzes that you know WHY you got them wrong and then explain the correct answer to me in detail.
Below is the List of Questions you got wrong on the quizzes. In a separate document, for each question please outline the following:
1) WHY you got the answer wrong. Your thinking process when you answered.
Please submit to me as a Word Document via e-mail.
Quiz Part A Questions:
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1) Research differs from everyday observation primarily because researchers |
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2) An average is an example of |
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3) Which two scales of measurement tell us by how much participants differ from each other? |
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4) What is the most important characteristic of a good sample? |
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6) A survey is an example of an experimental study." This statement is |
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7) "Measuring height using a tape measure is an example of the ratio sale of measurement." This statement is |
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Quiz Part C Questions:
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1) Which of the following values of R represents the strongest relationship? |
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2) When there is a perfect, direct relationship, what is the value of r? |
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3) When the coefficient of determination equals 0.70, what percentage of variance on one variable is not predicted by the other variable? |
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4) "When the dots in a scattergram form a pattern from the lower left to the upper right, the relationship is direct." This statement is |
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5) Which of the following values of r represents the strongest relationship? |
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6) "When r = .20, the percentage of variance accounted for is 20%." This statement is |
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7) "An r of -0.45 represents a stronger relationship than an r of 0.88." This statement is |
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8) For determining the correlation between a combination of two predictors to predict a third variable, which of the following should be computed? |
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When high scores on one variable are associated with high scores on the other variable, this suggests that the relationship is |
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10) "Each dot in a scattergram stands for a participant's score on one variable." This statement is |
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