On your final exam for your assessment course, your instructor reports that there was a positive skew with regard to distribution of scores. Describe or draw what those scores might have looked like on this test. What are the implications for the group’s performance? What implications might there be with regard to reliability and validity of the exam?

Researchers have long been interested in elements that comprise happiness. If you were to design a survey to determine levels of happiness, what would you include? That is, what elements do you believe combine together to equal happiness? These will become your building blocks (predictive variables) with happiness being the outcome (criterion variable).