You have sampled the population of undergraduate students in the education department at your institution to gauge understanding of the autistic spectrum in adults on a 5-point Likert scale.Your sample is plotted against a mean given as 2.6.What is a definition of the standard error?
A)Standard error = standard deviation
B)Standard error = mean
C)Standard error = number of possible sample populations
D)Standard error = standard deviation of sample means

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The standard error measures the dispersion or spread of the sample means around the population mean. It is calculated as the standard deviation of the sample means, which gives an indication of how much variability there is in the estimate of the mean from sample to sample.

You Have Sampled the Population of Undergraduate Students in the Education