Exam 1

  1. Metainformation

    Tag Value
    fileDescriptive-statistics_vufsw-empiricalrule-0027-en_vufsw-empiricalrule-0027-en
    namevufsw-empiricalrule-0027-en
    sectiondistributions/continuous/normal
    typeschoice
    solutionFALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE
    Typeconceptual
    ProgramNA
    LanguageEnglish
    Levelstatistical literacy

    Question

    A commercial was submitted for review to a group of Communication scholars. They had to assess the persuasiveness of the commercial on a number of indicators, which were aggregated to a scale of 1 to 10. It was found that the distribution of this variable is approximately normally distributed. The data looks as following (see bottom of question).
    According to the Empirical Rule, we can say about this data say that approximately…. 


    1. FALSE: 68% of observations are between 6.71 and 7.13.
    2. FALSE: 68% of observations are between 6.87 and 6.97.
    3. FALSE: 95% of observations are between 6.82 and 7.03.
    4. TRUE: 95% of observations are between 6.08 and 7.76.

    Solution

    Language Dutch

    M&T Basics of quantitative research Basics of quantitative research

    M&T BIS Default value


    1. False
    2. False
    3. False
    4. True