Asked by Courtney Mendez on Apr 25, 2024

A distribution of scores in which almost the entire class scored very low,but a few students scored fairly high would be ______.

A) negatively skewed
B) positively skewed
C) unskewed
D) normally distributed

Negatively Skewed

A distribution of data where the tail on the left side of the distribution is longer or fatter than the right side, indicating that the bulk of the values lie to the right of the mean.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, also used in statistics to describe the spread of values in a dataset.

  • Recognize the various kinds of skewness and ascertain their implications for data interpretation.