z-scores communicate a score's
A)absolute magnitude.
B)relative standing in a distribution.
C)distance from the population mean.
D)variability.

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Z-scores measure the number of standard deviations a data point is away from the mean of the distribution. This indicates the relative standing of the score compared to other scores in the distribution. While z-scores do communicate the distance from the mean (C), they do not communicate absolute magnitude (A) or variability (D).

Z-Scores Communicate a Score's