A researcher asks a sample of people about their attitudes toward marijuana legalization and concludes people have a wide variety of opinions, and are equally likely to be anywhere between strongly in favor of it to strongly opposed to it. She reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is ______.
A) flat
B) skewed
C) abnormal
D) peaked

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A flat distribution indicates that there is an equal likelihood of values occurring across the range, which supports the researcher's conclusion that people have a wide variety of opinions on marijuana legalization, from strongly in favor to strongly opposed. A skewed or abnormal distribution would suggest that the majority of people have a certain opinion, while a peaked distribution would indicate that most people have similar opinions.

A Researcher Asks a Sample of People About Their Attitudes