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A psychologist has collected some data on the number of friends that college students report they have. The data set follows: 6, 4, 3, 2, 7, 3, 8, 5. If the psychologist reports 3 as a measure of central tendency, which measure was used?
 
  a. mode
  b. mean
  c. median
  d. standard deviation

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A potential problem for the interpretation of IQ scores is the observation that IQ scores in general are rising across generations. The phenomenon is known as the
 
  a. IQ effect.
  b. Flynn effect.
  c. regression to the mean effect.
  d. We're Getting Smarter effect.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: a.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!

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Wow, this really help

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