STATISTICS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS [ GUARANTEED A+]
1. Descriptive statistic - ✔✔Organizes, summarizes, and communicates a
group of numerical observations
2. Inferential statistic - ✔✔Uses sample data to make general estimates
about the larger population
3. Sample - ✔✔Set of observations drawn from the population of interest
4. Population - ✔✔Includes all possible observations about which we'd like
to know something
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, 5. Variable - ✔✔Any observation of a physical, attitudinal, or behavioral
characteristic that can take on different values
6. Discrete observation - ✔✔Variable that can take on only specific values
(e.g. whole numbers); no other values can exist between these numbers
7. Continuous observation - ✔✔Variable that can take on a full range of
values (e.g. numbers out to several decimal places); an infinite number
of potential values exists
8. Nominal variable - ✔✔Variable used for observations that have
categories, or names, as their values
9. Ordinal variable - ✔✔Variable used for observations that have rankings
as their values
©morren 2025/2026.Year published 2026.
EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS [ GUARANTEED A+]
1. Descriptive statistic - ✔✔Organizes, summarizes, and communicates a
group of numerical observations
2. Inferential statistic - ✔✔Uses sample data to make general estimates
about the larger population
3. Sample - ✔✔Set of observations drawn from the population of interest
4. Population - ✔✔Includes all possible observations about which we'd like
to know something
©morren 2025/2026.Year published 2026.
, 5. Variable - ✔✔Any observation of a physical, attitudinal, or behavioral
characteristic that can take on different values
6. Discrete observation - ✔✔Variable that can take on only specific values
(e.g. whole numbers); no other values can exist between these numbers
7. Continuous observation - ✔✔Variable that can take on a full range of
values (e.g. numbers out to several decimal places); an infinite number
of potential values exists
8. Nominal variable - ✔✔Variable used for observations that have
categories, or names, as their values
9. Ordinal variable - ✔✔Variable used for observations that have rankings
as their values
©morren 2025/2026.Year published 2026.
