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Salkind, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, 6e SAGE Publishing, 2017

Chapter 1: Statistics or Sadistics? It’s Up to You

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

• When humans first realized that counting was a good idea, this became a useful skill for

people to have.

• knowing the alphabet
• asking questions
• collecting information
• making decisions

Ans: c

Answer Location: A 5-Minute History of Statistics

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• In early times, once numbers became part of the human language, the next step was to attach

numbers to _______.

• outcomes
• letters
• places
• time

Ans: a

Answer Location: A 5-Minute History of Statistics

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• After the first set of data having to do with populations was collected during the 17th century,

scientists needed to develop ______.

• general tools to answer general questions
• general tools to answer specific questions
• specific tools to answer general questions
• specific tools to answer specific questions

Ans: d

Answer Location: A 5-Minute History of Statistics

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• ______ is one of the most popular, most powerful analytic tools available today.
• SPSS 2 / 4

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• Microsoft Word
• Mini Tab
• Excel

Ans: a

Answer Location: And Why SPSS

Learning Objective: Why you should take statistics

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Today, statisticians in many different professional areas find themselves using _______

techniques to answer different questions.

• varied
• new
• the same
• experimental

Ans: c

Answer Location: A 5-Minute History of Statistics

Learning Objective: Why you should take statistics

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Statistics describes a set of _______ that are used for describing, organizing, and interpreting

information.

• statements
• rules and exceptions
• tools and techniques
• numbers and letters

Ans: c

Answer Location: Statistics: What It Is (and Isn’t)

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• _______ statistics involve collecting, organizing, and summarizing data.
• Experimental
• Descriptive
• Inferential
• Organizational

Ans: b

Answer Location: What Are Descriptive Statistics?

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Inferential statistics involve _______ the data.
• organizing 3 / 4

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• balancing
• editing
• interpreting

Ans: d

Answer Location: What Are Inferential Statistics?

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The type of descriptive statistic that tells you the most popular or most frequent choice from a

number of choices is the _______.

• median
• mode
• mean
• average

Ans: b

Answer Location: What Are Descriptive Statistics?

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The descriptive statistic that is also referred to as the average is the _______.
• median
• mode
• mean
• descriptor

Ans: c

Answer Location: What Are Descriptive Statistics?

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• _______ statistics are often (but not always) the next step after you have some basic

understanding of data.

• Descriptive
• Inferential
• Experimental
• Observational

Ans: b

Answer Location: What Are Inferential Statistics?

Learning Objective: What statistics is all about

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• _______ is to a smaller group of data as population is to a larger group of data.
• Micro group
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