Alice's study examined the benefits of early morning exercise on young children's attention during circle time. She had two groups of students, one who came to circle time first and then had recess and a second group that had recess before circle time. She is comparing the groups' attention based upon a frequency of off-task behaviors by group at circle. The likely descriptive statistic for Alice's dependent variable is

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The dependent variable in Alice's study is the frequency of off-task behaviors during circle time. The most appropriate descriptive statistic to use for this type of continuous data is the mean, which will provide an average measure of off-task behavior for each group. The range (A) and mode (B) are not useful for continuous data, while the median (D) may not accurately represent the central tendency of the data if there are extreme outliers.

Alice's Study Examined the Benefits of Early Morning Exercise on Young