Question

A friend of yours, a senior, took the Graduate Record Exam in September and scored in the 99th percentile. In February, your friend took the same exam over again. This time your friend scored in the 90th percentile. As a research methods student, you told your friend that his/her lowered score was most likely due to:

Answer 1

His/her lowered score was most likely due to statistical regression.

How to determine the reason?

The missing options in the question are:

A. compensation rivalry  B. Demoralization C.  Differential selection

D.  Testing E.  Statistical regression

From the question, we have:

• September = 99th percentile
• February = 90th percentile

A change (whether higher or lower) in the score is caused by statistical regression.

This is so because several variables could attribute to the change in the score.

The relationship between these variables is referred to as statistical regression

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