A teacher notices that on the last science test, some students did very well, while other students performed poorly or had grades in the middle of the pack. If she wanted to measure how "spread out" all of the scores were, which descriptive statistic coul

a. Median
b. Mode
c. Standard deviation
d. Mean

Answer: C

Rationale: Think of it as an estimate of the average distance from the mean.

Psychology

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