Amanda selects a sample of college students. She obtains the students' scores on several personality scales, as well as on a test of creativity. Amanda wishes to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test. She therefore computes ________ statistics.
A)descriptive
B)inferential
C)correlational
D)deviation

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Descriptive statistics are used to summarize and describe the main features of a collection of data, such as the average score or the distribution of scores in a sample. Since Amanda wants to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test, descriptive statistics are the appropriate choice.

Amanda Selects a Sample of College Students