Erin is testing her hypothesis that people who listen to music while on the job perform better than people who do not listen to music.The best way she can draw an inference about the relationship between music and performance would be to use
A)measures of central tendency.
B)standard deviation.
C)inferential statistics.
D)factor analysis.

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Inferential statistics are used to make inferences or predictions about a population based on a sample of data. This approach is best suited for testing hypotheses like Erin's, where the goal is to understand if there's a significant relationship between two variables (listening to music and job performance) across a broader population.

Erin Is Testing Her Hypothesis That People Who Listen to Music