L33 Psych 300 Quiz: Quiz 2 - Lily Zexter
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Questions 1-2 refer to the following study: researchers measure the weight of 5 participants prior to a clinical weight loss intervention. 200: [. 5 point] the researchers realize that the scale was not accurate for the individual weighing 300 pounds, and reweigh him. The median is used to describe data in a skewed distribution. It is also used for data in an ordinal scale: [1. 5 points] you want to know how much your friends know about you, and you quiz them on facts about you that they should be familiar with. You only quiz six of your friends (which constitute your sample). Their scores are 5, 10, 3, 7, 2, and 3. In class, we calculated the population variance for the following scenario. Now think of the friends that you quizzed as a sample (not a population), and calculate the sample variance (s2). To do this, you first need to get the sample mean.
