Question

Yasmin is trying to decide between two schools for her eight-year-old daughter to attend. two schools brag that the average iq test score of its students is 125, which is higher than the norm of 100. if yasmin is most interested in finding a school that has children with diverse abilities, she would want to know the _____ of the iq scores for each school.

Answer 1

If Yasmin is most interested in finding a school that has children with diverse abilities, The standard deviation statistic would she should know from both schools. Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, we can estimate the population standard deviation from a sample standard deviation.