Exam 1

  1. Metainformation

    Tag Value
    fileDescriptive-statistics_vufsw-graphs-0017-en_vufsw-graphs-0017-en
    namevufsw-graphs-0017-en
    sectiondescriptive statistics/data representation/graphs
    typeschoice
    solutionFALSE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE
    Typeconceptual
    ProgramNA
    LanguageEnglish
    Levelstatistical literacy

    Question

    Suppose you are interested in whether more hours of study per week would lead to higher grades. You want to investigate this among students at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. For this you want to select students from different programs, such as sociology, psychology, political science and anthropology.

    If you want to display the distribution (distribution) of the number of study hours shown in a figure, what is the best way to show this show: a bar chart (bar graph) or a histogram? Why?


    1. FALSE: A bar chart (bar chart), because the number of hours of study is a discrete categorical variable.
    2. FALSE: A bar chart (bar chart), because the number of study hours is a continuous quantitative variable.
    3. TRUE: A histogram, because the number of study hours is a continuous quantitative variable.
    4. FALSE: A histogram, because the number of study hours is a discrete categorical variable.

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