Vitalii Nesterchuk / Shutterstock Michelle Kweder, a student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, summed up her feelings about taking statistics with the following status update: "I've decided that learning statistics is like bungee jumping with dental floss." The truth is that, while some statistical procedures may be completely new to you, you already have a good intuitive sense of how to use statistics. In fact, you probably already know how to use statistical information to inform your decisions. By way of example, do you think bungee jumping is a safe sport? (Note: This is an exploratory exercise. There are no right or wrong answers for this question. Choose your response based on your general impression or your knowledge of the sport.) Bungee jumping is NOT safe. Bungee jumping is safe. Chapter 1 Homework students at ner small college. Participants in the study (nirst-year students at ner college) complete an on task. The students are first shown a list of 60 words. Next they are shown a list that includes 10 words th the original list. Then they are asked to identify the words on the second list that appeared on the original uses the percentage of words that were correctly recognized on the original list as her measure of memor She also asks the students to report several characteristics such as their age, gender, and verbal SAT sco Each of the 500 first-year students (268 males and 232 females) at her school volunteers to participate. professor chose 50 students at random to complete the memory task and answer the questions. The aver percentage of words that were correctly recognized on the original list was 68%. The professor infers that first-year students had completed the study, the results would show that an average of 68% (plus or mini error) of the words were correctly recognized as being on the original list. Which of the following are variables in the study? Check all that apply. The 50 students The students' percentage of words that were correctly recognized on the original list The students' verbal SAT scores The 500 students What is the population in the study? CO The 50 students who participated in the study The 68% of words correctly recognized as being on the original list The 500 first-year students at the college What is the sample in the study? The 500 student volunteers The 50 students who participated in the study The 68% of words correctly recognized as being on the original list 000 What is an example of a statistic in the study? 68%, the average percentage of the original list expected to be correctly recognized by the 500 studer 232 females and 268 males 68%, the average percentage of words that were correctly recognized as being from the original list by students