Statistic is to sample as __________ is to _________.
What is 'parameter' and 'population'?
100
Imagine an airplane with 35 rows of seats, each of which contains 8 seats (two seats on the left aisle, four in the middle island, and two on the right aisle). Assuming random assignment, the probability of receiving any seat in the right aisle is this.
What is 2 / 8 (25%)?
100
The level of measurement for the subjects in which college students major.
What is nominal?
100
On a line graph, the _______ variable is displayed on the X-axis, whereas the _______ variable is displayed on the Y-axis.
What is independent and dependent?
100
The mean of the following sample of data: (53, 40, 66, 78, 53)
What is 58?
200
Introductory Psychology students, who are required to participate in studies, are an example of __________ sampling.
What is 'convenience sampling'?
200
The probability of drawing the Queen of Hearts in a standard deck of cards (without Joker cards) is this.
What is 4 / 50 (8%)?
200
The level of measurement for the rankings of college football teams.
What is ordinal?
200
A researcher wants to determine if the color of an office has any effect on worker productivity. In an experiment, one group performs a task in a yellow room while another performs the same task in a blue room. The independent variable for this study is this.
What is 'room color'?
200
The median of the following sample of data: (75, 60, 18, 79, 17, 90, 100, 42, 55, 67, 16, 41, 20, 65, 88, 5, 42, 23, 67, 38)
What is 48.5?
300
Describing populations is to ________ statistics as making predictions is to ________ statistics.
What is descriptive and inferential?
300
True/False/Why: On a roulette wheel, the probability of landing on RED significantly increases after the ball lands on BLACK five times in a row.
What is False (each roll is an independent event)?
300
The level of measurement for the Kelvin temperature scale.
What is ratio?
300
A business wants to determine if giving employees more control over how to do their work leads to increased job satisfaction. In an experiment, one group of workers is given a great deal of input in how they perform their work, while the other group is not. The dependent variable for the study is this.
What is 'job satisfaction'?
300
If a population of scores has a mean of 35 and a standard deviation of 10, and I add 5 points to every score, the new mean and standard deviation will be this.
What is 40 and 10?
400
If during a study an effect is identified that does not exist within the population, this error is said to have been made.
What is a 'Type I error'?
400
A bag contains 6 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 7 green marbles. If a marble is randomly selected from the bag, what is the probability that it is blue?
What is 3 / 16?
400
A negatively skewed distribution will have the tail on the ______ side. (left; right; top; bottom)
What is the left?
400
As researchers, we usually seek to reject or disprove this hypothesis.
What is the 'null hypothesis'?
400
In a frequency distribution table, the response / datapoint with the largest number of occurrences is known as this.
What is the mode?
500
Compute the corrected sample standard deviation for the following data: (75, 60, 18, 79). Provide 2 decimal points with you answer.
What is '27.89'?
500
In one town, 70% of adults have health insurance. What is the probability that 6 adults selected at random from the town all have health insurance?
What is 11.8% (0.7^6)?
500
A recent political poll sampled 1500 adults regarding an upcoming election. The margin of error for this poll would be this. Round to 2 decimal points.
What is 2.58%?
500
In a between-subjects design, participants encounter __________________, whereas in a within-subjects design, participants encounter __________________.
What is 'one level of the IV' and 'all levels of the IV'?
500
This measurement of central tendency is more appropriate when a large number of outliers are present in your dataset.