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The stimulus intensity that is detected half the time, on average, is called the _____ threshold.

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The answer to this question is: absolute

Absolute threshold is the lowest intensity of a stimulus that can be detected by an organism. This normal value was determined by taking data of the lowest intensity of the populaion, then taking the 50% percentile value of the data. That means the absolute threshold would be right for half of the population.
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