Question

Michelle is a cognitive psychologist studying reading times for stories that contain either consistent or inconsistent information. She runs 38 people through her study and concludes that reading times slow when coherence breaks occur in a story. Specifically, she concludes reading times slow by 6.9 milliseconds on average. Michelle's prediction is a(n):

Answer 1

INTERVAL ESTIMATE

Step-by-step explanation:

Michelles prediction without doubt is an internal estimate has she attempts to get the average time by wich reeading time slows when coherence breaks occur in a story. Interval estimation is the use of sample data (38 PEOPLE IN THE CASE OF MICHELLE) to calculate an interval of possible values of an unknown parameter i.e it aims at estimating a parameter using a range of values rather than a single number. it implies the mean (average) of a population by computing an interval, or range of values, within which the parameter is most likely to be found.

Answer 2

Answer: Point estimate

Explanation: When working on the sample population which involves taking at random, a part of the entire population which is representative of the whole population distribution, when only a single value is obtained from the sample distribution to serve as the best estimate or guess about the population parameter, this is called a POINT ESTIMATE. In the scenario above, using a sample size of 38, a single point estimate of 6.8 milliseconds was obtained as the average slow time when coherence breaks while reading. The 6.8 millisecond obtained is the population parameter.