Question

A student decided to research primate psychology for their science project. They measured how long it took gorillas to adapt to their new habitat when moved from one zoo to another. They measured how long it took the new gorilla to interact regularly (more than 3 times per day) with the gorillas that already live there. Seven different cases were examined and the data collected. What can be said about the data?

Answer 1

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Answer:

Option A - The data may not be reliable because there is an outlier.

Explanation:

Looking at the question attached and the number of the gorrila vis - a - vis the time to interact, we can see that majority of the time to interact falls between 2.5 and 3.4.

However, we have a time of 8.3 days which is for gorrila 3.

This 8.3 is far higher than the range of the other values. Thus, we have an outlier because an outlier is a value is much more smaller or larger than most of the other values in a set of given data.

Thus, the data may not be reliable because there is an outlier.