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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by backpacks

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great for holding books, notes, pens, cell phones and part of a long-forgotten very [boy emptying backpack and finds an old sandwich]

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hard to identify lunchable sandwich, yeah which of the following statements is

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true right here and here the potential answers all right...

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Well the standard deviation of a population is computed using population [plane flies by and people parachute down]

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data and not sample data using sample data for this is like putting bricks in

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your backpack they'll fit in there but it makes no plan so statement 3 is [boy walking with bricks in his backpack and falls over]

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inaccurate making answer C and D wrong so just cross them out reviewing

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statement 2; Well the standard error of a statistic is not a measure of central

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tendency it is a measure of variability and that means statement 2 is false and

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answers B and E are off our list cross em off, there we go. So it looks like

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statement 1 is accurate an option A is the correct answer the median of a

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population is a measure of central tendency central tendency refers to the [Option A circled yellow]

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middle value of data and is measured using the mean median or mode well the

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median is the number that separates the higher half of a population from the

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lower half consider the median to be the middle ground between the mountain and a [People hiking in the mountains]

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hill of fire ants, for the record we would sooner climb to the top of the mountain

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then picnic on top of a fire hill of ants different strokes for different folks [people running away from fire ants on a mountain]

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