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stephzh

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Professor Kipling is discussing statistics in your introductory psychology class. She explains that descriptive statistics are invaluable because they allow psychologists to ____.
 
  a. describe the relationship between two variables
  b. summarize a pool of data
  c. determine whether a data set is normally distributed
  d. determine whether the differences between two groups are significant

Question 2

The most basic use of histograms is to ____.
 
  a. establish that the null hypothesis is true
  b. determine whether an analysis of variance is needed
  c. analyze data statistically
  d. better understand the shape of the data



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
d



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