If you want to compare scores from one distribution to scores from another distribution, you should ______.
A) compare the directly
B) compare z-scores computed from each
C) compare the means of each distribution
D) compare the square root of each value

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Comparing z-scores computed from each distribution allows for a direct comparison of scores from different distributions, as z-scores represent the number of standard deviations a score is away from the mean within its own distribution.

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