An industrial psychologist observed 8 drill-press operators for one working day. She recorded the number of times each operator pressed the "faster" button instead of the "stop" button to determine whether the design of the control panel was contributing to the high rate of accidents in the plant. The resulting scores were as follows: 5, 2, 8, 2, 3, 2, 4, 12 The mode for this distribution is _________.
A) 2
B) 3
C) 8
D) there is no mode

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The mode is the most frequent score in the distribution. In this case, the score of 2 appears three times, while all other scores appear only once or twice. Therefore, the mode for this distribution is 2.

An Industrial Psychologist Observed 8 Drill-Press Operators for One Working