WGU C207 – SELF-ASSESSMENTS
MODULE 1
1. IF you were to take your temperature 10 times in a row using the same thermometer and got
the same result every time, you could say that the thermometer is _______.
a. Valid
b. Reliable
c. Accurate
d. Measurable
2. According to the 2000 census the average number of people in a family in the US was 3.17. Since
it isn't possible to have .17 of a person, you would use a _________ data point to describe the
number of people in your family.
a. Continuous
b. Discrete
c. Valid
d. Ordinal
3. You survey 100 New Yorkers about their preference for New York style or Chicago style pizza.
What would be wrong with this?
a. You would encounter information bias
b. You would encounter gender bias
c. You would encounter random error
d. You would encounter measurement bias
4. Rankings are an example of which kind of data?
a. Nominal
b. Continuous
c. Ordinal
d. Discrete
5. The science of using mathematical procedures to describe data is _______.
a. Statistics
b. Mathematics
c. Descriptive data
d. Analytics
6. The third stage of Davenport and Kim's Three Stage Model of quantitative decision making is
which of the following?
a. Solving the problem
, b. Framing the problem
c. Communicating results
d. None of the above
7. Cleaning and organizing collected raw data refers to which of the following?
a. Data collection
b. Data management
c. Data discovery
d. Rectangular data
8. Suppose you wanted to measure the air quality in cities with a higher proportion of bicycle riders
to drivers. What kind of study might you use?
a. Observational study
b. Experimental study
c. Double-blind study
d. Triple-blind study
9. Suppose you were to use analytics in an experiment to determine how many salespeople to
assign to particular sales territories based on the makeup and performance of the territories in
the results of the experiment. You would be using which kind of analytics?
a. Predictive
b. Prescriptive
c. Descriptive
d. Proactive
10. Suppose you employed analytics to determine which sales territories had shown the most
profitable growth in the last four quarter and would most likely do so again in the future. You
would be using which kind of analytics?
a. Predictive
b. Prescriptive
c. Descriptive
d. Proactive
11. Of the following, which is considered the most serious kind of data error?
a. Poorly formatted data
b. Number transportation
c. Out-of-range data
d. Missing data
, 12. If you designed a drug trial in which the subject, the data gatherer, and the treatment allocator
did not know who was in the control group then you created a ________ study.
a. Blind
b. Biased
c. Double-blind
d. Triple-blind
13. Suppose you were making a simplified representation of a complex problem in order to solve it,
which stage of the Three Stage Model would you be in?
a. Framing the problem
b. Data collection
c. Solving the problem
d. Communicating results
14. Assume you are measuring the various returns on investment, over the past year, for four
different stocks in your portfolio. You find the following values (each as a percent of your
investment): 4.68, 5.65, 3.78, -0.46, 6.91. What kind of data are these data points?
a. Continuous data
b. Nominal data
c. Discrete data
d. Ordinal data
15. If you were to take your temperature 10 times in a row using the same thermometer and get the
following results (in degrees Fahrenheit), what could you assume about the thermometer? 34,
99, 108, 45, 66, 21, 78, 53, 94, 102
a. It is reliable but not valid
b. It is valid but not reliable
c. It is neither reliable nor valid
d. It is both reliable and valid
MODULE 1
1. IF you were to take your temperature 10 times in a row using the same thermometer and got
the same result every time, you could say that the thermometer is _______.
a. Valid
b. Reliable
c. Accurate
d. Measurable
2. According to the 2000 census the average number of people in a family in the US was 3.17. Since
it isn't possible to have .17 of a person, you would use a _________ data point to describe the
number of people in your family.
a. Continuous
b. Discrete
c. Valid
d. Ordinal
3. You survey 100 New Yorkers about their preference for New York style or Chicago style pizza.
What would be wrong with this?
a. You would encounter information bias
b. You would encounter gender bias
c. You would encounter random error
d. You would encounter measurement bias
4. Rankings are an example of which kind of data?
a. Nominal
b. Continuous
c. Ordinal
d. Discrete
5. The science of using mathematical procedures to describe data is _______.
a. Statistics
b. Mathematics
c. Descriptive data
d. Analytics
6. The third stage of Davenport and Kim's Three Stage Model of quantitative decision making is
which of the following?
a. Solving the problem
, b. Framing the problem
c. Communicating results
d. None of the above
7. Cleaning and organizing collected raw data refers to which of the following?
a. Data collection
b. Data management
c. Data discovery
d. Rectangular data
8. Suppose you wanted to measure the air quality in cities with a higher proportion of bicycle riders
to drivers. What kind of study might you use?
a. Observational study
b. Experimental study
c. Double-blind study
d. Triple-blind study
9. Suppose you were to use analytics in an experiment to determine how many salespeople to
assign to particular sales territories based on the makeup and performance of the territories in
the results of the experiment. You would be using which kind of analytics?
a. Predictive
b. Prescriptive
c. Descriptive
d. Proactive
10. Suppose you employed analytics to determine which sales territories had shown the most
profitable growth in the last four quarter and would most likely do so again in the future. You
would be using which kind of analytics?
a. Predictive
b. Prescriptive
c. Descriptive
d. Proactive
11. Of the following, which is considered the most serious kind of data error?
a. Poorly formatted data
b. Number transportation
c. Out-of-range data
d. Missing data
, 12. If you designed a drug trial in which the subject, the data gatherer, and the treatment allocator
did not know who was in the control group then you created a ________ study.
a. Blind
b. Biased
c. Double-blind
d. Triple-blind
13. Suppose you were making a simplified representation of a complex problem in order to solve it,
which stage of the Three Stage Model would you be in?
a. Framing the problem
b. Data collection
c. Solving the problem
d. Communicating results
14. Assume you are measuring the various returns on investment, over the past year, for four
different stocks in your portfolio. You find the following values (each as a percent of your
investment): 4.68, 5.65, 3.78, -0.46, 6.91. What kind of data are these data points?
a. Continuous data
b. Nominal data
c. Discrete data
d. Ordinal data
15. If you were to take your temperature 10 times in a row using the same thermometer and get the
following results (in degrees Fahrenheit), what could you assume about the thermometer? 34,
99, 108, 45, 66, 21, 78, 53, 94, 102
a. It is reliable but not valid
b. It is valid but not reliable
c. It is neither reliable nor valid
d. It is both reliable and valid
