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STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY 5TH
EDITION EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS BANK AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
Strategies for selecting treatment/control groups
......ANSWER........1. select at random so each group has an equal
chance of getting assigned to each group.
2. use sufficiently large groups. Make sure both treatment and
control are large enough so the study has meaning.
The Placebo Effect ......ANSWER........Refers to the situation in
which patients improve simply because they believe they are
receiving a useful treatment.
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Placebo ......ANSWER........Something that looks and feels like the
real treatment, but lacks any active ingredient. (given to the
control group)
Experimenter effect ......ANSWER........occurs when a researcher
or experimenter somehow influences subjects through such factors
as facial expression, tone of voice, or attitude.
Blinding ......ANSWER........When patients are "in the dark" and
not told who is receiving a treatment and who is not
Single Blinding ......ANSWER........If the participants don't know if
they are in the control group or the treatment group, but the
experimenters know.
Double Blinding ......ANSWER........If the participants don't know if
they are in the control group or the treatment group, and the
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experimenters also don't know who is in the control group or who
is in the treatment group.
Statistics (The Science) ......ANSWER........collecting, organizing,
and interpreting data
Statistics (The Thing) ......ANSWER........The data that describes or
summarizes something.
Population ......ANSWER........Complete set of people or things
being studied. (This set is usually too large to reasonably
directly calculate anything.)
Population Parameter ......ANSWER........specific numbers
describing the specific characteristics of the population. (You can
almost never have this exact number so we just get close
enough... using statistics!)
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Sample ......ANSWER........Subset of the population from which
data are actually obtained.
Sample Statistic ......ANSWER........numbers describing
characteristics of the sample found by consolidating or
summarizing the raw data
Raw Data ......ANSWER........actual measurements/observations
collected from sample
margin of error ......ANSWER........used to calculate range of
values. (Confidence Interval defined as 95%)
confidence interval ......ANSWER........the range of values within
which a population parameter is estimated to lie.
Suppose we have a sample statistic of average height of 5.25
feet at a high school. Also, the margin of error is plus or minus
STATISTICAL REASONING FOR EVERYDAY 5TH
EDITION EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS BANK AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
Strategies for selecting treatment/control groups
......ANSWER........1. select at random so each group has an equal
chance of getting assigned to each group.
2. use sufficiently large groups. Make sure both treatment and
control are large enough so the study has meaning.
The Placebo Effect ......ANSWER........Refers to the situation in
which patients improve simply because they believe they are
receiving a useful treatment.
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Placebo ......ANSWER........Something that looks and feels like the
real treatment, but lacks any active ingredient. (given to the
control group)
Experimenter effect ......ANSWER........occurs when a researcher
or experimenter somehow influences subjects through such factors
as facial expression, tone of voice, or attitude.
Blinding ......ANSWER........When patients are "in the dark" and
not told who is receiving a treatment and who is not
Single Blinding ......ANSWER........If the participants don't know if
they are in the control group or the treatment group, but the
experimenters know.
Double Blinding ......ANSWER........If the participants don't know if
they are in the control group or the treatment group, and the
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experimenters also don't know who is in the control group or who
is in the treatment group.
Statistics (The Science) ......ANSWER........collecting, organizing,
and interpreting data
Statistics (The Thing) ......ANSWER........The data that describes or
summarizes something.
Population ......ANSWER........Complete set of people or things
being studied. (This set is usually too large to reasonably
directly calculate anything.)
Population Parameter ......ANSWER........specific numbers
describing the specific characteristics of the population. (You can
almost never have this exact number so we just get close
enough... using statistics!)
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Sample ......ANSWER........Subset of the population from which
data are actually obtained.
Sample Statistic ......ANSWER........numbers describing
characteristics of the sample found by consolidating or
summarizing the raw data
Raw Data ......ANSWER........actual measurements/observations
collected from sample
margin of error ......ANSWER........used to calculate range of
values. (Confidence Interval defined as 95%)
confidence interval ......ANSWER........the range of values within
which a population parameter is estimated to lie.
Suppose we have a sample statistic of average height of 5.25
feet at a high school. Also, the margin of error is plus or minus
