Program evaluators are trying to gain knowledge into the cognitive distortions of sexual offenders. They expect that there will be a "norm" of cognitive distortions, but what is emerging is a substantial amount of variability. What appears are that some offenders distort their intentions, some distort the interests in their victims, and some have distortions about the concepts of love and intimacy. What is the name of the type of descriptive statistics that illustrates how much responses vary from the "norm?"

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Measures of variability (such as range, standard deviation, and variance) illustrate how much responses vary from the "norm," which is central tendency (measures such as mean, median, and mode). Therefore, choice A is the correct answer as it refers to the specific type of descriptive statistics that illustrates variability.

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