Statistics or Sadistics MCQs

Statistics or Sadistics MCQs

Try to answer these 20 Statistics or Sadistics MCQs and check your understanding of the Statistics or Sadistics subject.
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1: Although called different things, the same statistics are used in disciplines such as ______.

A.   Agriculture

B.   Politics

C.   Astronomy

D.   All of these

2: Researchers want the sample they use for inferential statistics to be ______ of the population.

A.   Representative

B.   An exact replication

C.   Descriptive

D.   A unique subset

3: Statistics describes a set of ______ that is used for describing, organizing, and interpreting information.

A.   Statements

B.   Rules and exceptions

C.   Tools and techniques

D.   Numbers and letters

4: According to the textbook, learning statistics is most closely compared to ______.

A.   Learning a new language

B.   Learning how to use the computer

C.   Learning how to compute mathematical equations

D.   Learning how to paint a picture

5: Which of the following would be used to describe the type of statistical methods used to organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data?

A.   Inferential statistics

B.   Descriptive statistics

C.   Sampling methods

D.   Population methods

6: Statistics is a shortened version of ______.

A.   Statistical data

B.   Statistical procedure

C.   Statistical math

D.   Statistical proof

7: The type of descriptive statistic that tells you the most frequently occurring value is the ______.

A.   Mean

B.   Average

C.   Mode

D.   Sum total

8: Inferential statistics involve ______ the data.

A.   Organizing

B.   Balancing

C.   Editing

D.   Interpreting

9: What is a collection of information also called?

A.   Data set

B.   Sample statistic

C.   Descriptive statistic

D.   Population subset

10: In statistics, a sample is ______.

A.   The entire group to a which a law of nature applies

B.   A subset of a group to which a law of nature applies

C.   All of the subjects in which we are interested

D.   At least half of the subjects in the population

11: Who popularized the use of the correlation coefficient?

A.   Charles Darwin

B.   Neil Salkind

C.   Francis Galton

D.   R. A. Fisher

12: ______ statistics involve collecting, organizing, and summarizing data.

A.   Experimental

B.   Descriptive

C.   Inferential

D.   Organizational

13: In statistics, a population is ______

A.   The entire group

B.   A subset of the group

C.   All the people in the world

D.   An infinite number that cannot be counted

14: The study of statistics will require you to ______.

A.   Develop new formulas for statistical procedure

B.   Learn how to compute and interpret statistical procedures correctly

C.   Memorize many complicated and unfamiliar formulas

D.   Learn a relatively unimportant step in research

15: A set of tools and techniques used to describe, organize, and interpret information or data is called

A.   Statistics

B.   Physics

C.   Variation

D.   All of these

16: Values that organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data is called ____

A.   Data point

B.   Data set

C.   Data value

D.   All of these

17: Data set is set of data ____

A.   Numbers

B.   Points

C.   Values

D.   Scores

18: A record of an observation or an event such as a test score, a grade in math class, or response time is called

A.   Value

B.   Data

C.   Set

D.   Observation

19: Sample is subset of a _____

A.   Individual

B.   Population

C.   Data

D.   Value

20: Inferential statistics that are used to infer characteristics of a population based on data from a sample of that population.

A.   True

B.   False

21: All the possible subjects or cases of interest is called

A.   Sample

B.   Data

C.   Population

D.   Individual

22: When are descriptive measures most often used?

A.   To describe how often something occurs

B.   To determine if a sample is representative of a population

C.   To predict an outcome

D.   To determine the effect of an intervention