Question

Dr. Miller conducts a study examining the relationship between the number of friends one has and the experience of daily stress and life satisfaction. Dr. Miller decides to create a scatterplot of the relationship between daily stress and life satisfaction, but in doing so, she realizes there are three scores that seem to be very extreme and are nowhere near the other points on the scatterplot. Specifically, it appears that three people report very high levels of daily stress and very low levels of life satisfaction. Dr. Miller should probably consider these scores _________.

Answer 1

Dr. Miller should probably consider these scores _________.

Outliers

Step-by-step explanation:

An outlier is an abnormal observation that lies two standard deviations away from other values in a random population sample. For example, the three people who report very high levels of daily stress and very low levels of life satisfaction are outliers. They have extreme scores that are not within the average or mean scores recorded in Dr. Miller's scatterplot.