HUMAN TENDENCIES Intro • Human Tendencies are natural impulses that direct an individual to perform certain actions or activities without a conscious plan • These tendencies then were given to man to help us to serve and satisfy our fundamental needs. • They are the force/drive behind all achievement • Universal • Innate • Unconscious • Have them from birth to death • It is not an instinct – animals have instincts/humans have tendencies • They use tendencies to gain skills the needs
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Week Five Discussion | This Discussion will give you the opportunity to calculate or identify the three measures of central tendency. You will be asked to select an appropriate real life situation in which one measure would be more appropriate than the other two measures of center. 1. Select a topic of interest to you and record the topic in your posting‚ for example: “What is the average number of hours people watch TV every week?” Make sure the question you ask will be answered with a number
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POOR COUNTRIES ARE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR Poor countries are poor not because they are poor but because they lack the essential resources which are significant for economic growth and development. The African continent is considered as the poorest continent in the world. This is due to political instability which tends to scare away investors thus stunting economic growth of a country. Some of the reasons as to which developing countries are poor are; corrupt governments‚ low illiteracy levels
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Assignment on Central Tendency and Dispersion 1. A manufacturer of hand shovels is deciding what length handles to use. Studies of user preference reveal that the average‚ the median‚ mean and mode of preferred length are all different. What are the implications of using each of these values? Which value would you decide? 2. A given machine is assumed to depreciate 40 percent in value in the first year‚ 25 percent in value in the 2nd year and 10 percent in value in the next three years; each
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people don’t check their tires to ensure they have tires that will provide them with the appropriate amount of traction to continually drive safely. If you don’t check your tires‚ you could face many problems on the road. Worn Tires Increase the Tendency for Rubber Failure It’s no shocker that your tires consists of mostly rubber. Tire manufacturers rely on rubber and other compounds to maintain traction and air pressure. When you drive your car on worn tires‚ the heat produced from driving causes
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Answer the following problems showing your work and explaining (or analyzing) your results. 1. Describe the measures of central tendency. Under what condition(s) should each one be used? Mean- Works good when it comes to test scores Median- should be used when describing something like average income. Mode= is good is you want to see what is you best seeing product in a store situation. 2. Last year‚ 12 employees from a computer company retired. Their ages at retirement are listed below.First‚
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Central Tendency Measures of Central Tendency There are many ways of describing of a given set of data. A good number of descriptive measures exist in statistics whose use depends largely on the nature of data and the intended purpose of the description. This measure is the measures of position or central tendency‚ it is use to see how a large set of raw materials can be summarized so that the meaningful essential can be extracted from it. The most commonly measures of central tendency are the
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Central Tendency and Measures of Variation Task 1: 1.1 a.) Define Population: Population is a complete group or collection of items or people selected to be used for a statistical study b.) Define Sample: Sample is a partial selection or part of the population for which the study uses for information gathering. 1.7 The Neilson study is an inferential study; the results contained on the study are not focused and generalized. The population is not defined and therefore inferences are needed
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’The Asch Studies’ were a series of experiments designed to test humans’ tendency for conformity. Asch’s work was a direct response to the work of Sherif‚ although Sherif was technically studying the process of norm formation in new groups. The reason why Asch wanted to improve on Sherif’s work is that he believed that Sherif only achieved the results he did due to the ambiguity of the task; in other words‚ the participants had no idea what the correct answer was and so considered their best bet
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mature person but has no difficulty in relating with them. 0 = instability of the family domicile has had little effect on his favorable feeling towards them. * Attitude towards Women ( 10‚ 25‚ 40‚ 55) 2 = extremely suspicious‚ possible homosexual tendency 1 = high ideas but ambivalent feelings. 0 = only minor or superficial criticisms * Attitude towards Heterosexual Relationship (11‚26‚41‚56) 2 = appears to have given up achieving good sexual adjustment 1 = deserved sexual experiences but reservation
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