Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133956572
ISBN 13: 978-1-13395-657-0

Chapter 4 - Measures of Variability - Problems - Page 116: 11

Answer

a. see table b. By adding 2 points to each score, 13 , 2, 4, 11, 11, 7 the mean become $(13+2+ 4+11+11+7)/6$=8 However, the variability does not change because each of the deviation scores ( X-$\mu$) does not change (4).

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