Question

Professor Green is interested in determining the average SAT score for the entire population of individuals who took the SAT. She wants to know how her class compares to the population of students who took the SAT. She finds that the average SAT score for the population is 1000. Is this score an example of a descriptive or an inferential statistic?

Answer 1

Descriptive statistics

Step-by-step explanation:

The population average is a descriptive statistic. It informs about how the population looks like, in this case, the population looks like having a average of 1000.

If, using her class's average where to infer the population average that is inferential statistic. But that is not the case