Author Question: The mean is more useful than the frequency distribution _____. a. when some people refuse to ... (Read 52 times)

nenivikky · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

The mean is more useful than the frequency distribution _____.

a. when some people refuse to participate in the research
b. when the number of different scores possible is large
c. when nonhuman research participants are being tested
d. all of these

Question 2

If I wanted to make a frequency distribution of which movies were most popular with teenage girls, I might group the movies into groups such as comedies, thrillers, romances, and animal stories. These groups would constitute the _____ in the frequency distribution.

a. counts c. categories
b. respondents d. frequencies

CAPTAINAMERICA · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
A frequency distribution that lists all the responses made by 500 respondents would be unwieldy and too long to be able to summarize the responses effectively. For large data sets, the mean gives, in a single number, a summary of how all the participants responded.

Answer to Question 2

C
Counts and frequencies would reflect the number of times any category (type of movie) was chosen by an individual as her first choice. Respondents are the people who respond to the questions asked by the researcher.