QUIZ IN MEASURES

OF VARIABILITY
1.What is Variability?

a. A measure of the spread of a group of data     

b. A measure of the center data point of a group of data.
c. measure of the middle fifty percent of a group of data.
d. None of the options
• 2. It refers to a statistical measurement of the spread between numbers in a
data set and measures how far each number in the set is from the mean
and thus from every other number in the set.
• a. Mean
• b. Standard Deviation
• c. Variable
• d. Variance
• 3. It is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its
mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.
• a. Mean
• b. Standard Deviation
• c. Variable
• d. Variance
• 4. Any entity that can take on different values.
• a. Mean
• b. Standard Deviation
• c. Variable
• d. Variance
• 5. It is the arithmetic average of a set of given numbers.
• a. Mean
• b. Standard Deviation
• c. Variable
• d. Variance
• 6. How to find the mean, EXCEPT.
• a. Look at your data set.
• b. Add the numbers in your sample together.
• c. Subtract the mean from each of your numbers.
• d. Divide the sum by how many numbers are there in your sample.
• 7. Find the Variance 10 8 10 8 8 4
• a. 24
• b. 4.8
• c. 4.2
• d. 22
• 8. How to calculate the standard deviation EXCEPT
• a. Calculate the average
• b. Calculate the deviation, score minus the average
• c. Square the deviation
• d. Subtract the squared deviation
• Is simply the highest score/value minus the lowest score/value in the set.
• a. Variance
• b. Range
• c. Standard Deviation
• d. Mean
• 10. Technically speaking, the interquartile range is a measure of
association and not a measure of variability.
• a. yes
• b. no