BESC 3010 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
In a sample of women, the number of children that each woman has is an example of which level of
measurement? - Answer-Ratio
Military ranks are an example of what level of measurement? - Answer-Ordinal
Gender is an example of what level of measurement? - Answer-Nominal
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below?
1
11
111
111111 - Answer-Positively Skewed
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below?
1
, 11111
1111111
111111111
11111111111 - Answer-Normal
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below? (A normal curve has been
superimposed on the distribution for comparison.) - Answer-Mesokurtic
In which of the following situations is the median an appropriate measure of central tendency? -
Answer-The researcher has ordinal data
Which of the following is NOT true about the abnormal distribution? - Answer-Kurtosis = 1
The visual difference between bar graphs and histograms is that in __________ the bars touch each
other and in __________ the bars do not touch. - Answer-Histograms, bar graphs
Compared to the normal distribution, a leptokurtic distribution has a ___________ than the normal
distribution. - Answer-Taller peak
If the dots on a scatterplot generally extend from the bottom left to the upper right of the diagram but
are very widely spread out, the researcher would report the correlation as: - Answer-Weak and positive
The three measures of variability are: - Answer-Range, variance, standard deviation
Which option is the mean of the numbers below?
4 5 4 4 3 5 6 3 4 2 - Answer-4
Answers
In a sample of women, the number of children that each woman has is an example of which level of
measurement? - Answer-Ratio
Military ranks are an example of what level of measurement? - Answer-Ordinal
Gender is an example of what level of measurement? - Answer-Nominal
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below?
1
11
111
111111 - Answer-Positively Skewed
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below?
1
, 11111
1111111
111111111
11111111111 - Answer-Normal
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below? (A normal curve has been
superimposed on the distribution for comparison.) - Answer-Mesokurtic
In which of the following situations is the median an appropriate measure of central tendency? -
Answer-The researcher has ordinal data
Which of the following is NOT true about the abnormal distribution? - Answer-Kurtosis = 1
The visual difference between bar graphs and histograms is that in __________ the bars touch each
other and in __________ the bars do not touch. - Answer-Histograms, bar graphs
Compared to the normal distribution, a leptokurtic distribution has a ___________ than the normal
distribution. - Answer-Taller peak
If the dots on a scatterplot generally extend from the bottom left to the upper right of the diagram but
are very widely spread out, the researcher would report the correlation as: - Answer-Weak and positive
The three measures of variability are: - Answer-Range, variance, standard deviation
Which option is the mean of the numbers below?
4 5 4 4 3 5 6 3 4 2 - Answer-4
