A psychologist devises a test to measure anxiety.He administers this test to over 1,000 persons and learns how many people show low, medium, or high levels of anxiety.The results of his test will form which of the following?

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The psychologist is measuring anxiety levels in a large sample of people, so their results will likely follow a normal or bell-shaped curve. This is because most people will fall in the middle range of anxiety levels, with fewer people at the extreme low and high ends of the spectrum. A skewed deviation curve, U-shaped curve, or scatter plot would be more appropriate for measuring other types of data or relationships between variables.

A Psychologist Devises a Test to Measure Anxiety