Khan Statistics Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Khan Statistics Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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Learning about statistics:
a. Is risky.
b. Will help one avoid being misled by those who misuse statistics as a way to propagandize
their political agenda.
c. Is important despite its lack of relevance to practice.
d. Ca...
Khan Statistics Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Learning about statistics:
a. Is risky.
b. Will help one avoid being misled by those who misuse statistics as a way to propagandize
their political agenda.
c. Is important despite its lack of relevance to practice.
d. Can interfere with one's capacity to be a warm, compassionate practitioner. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- b. Will help one avoid being misled by those who misuse statistics as a way
to propagandize their political agenda.
Learning about statistics:
a. Will help you be more effective in marshalling data to advocate for a new policy or
program.
b. Will help you see through the misleading uses of statistics by your adversaries and to show
others how their use of those statistics is misleading.
c. Will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
d. All of these. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. All of these
Which of the following statements best depicts research findings on the effectiveness of
interventions that have been popular among helping professionals and that have seemed
theoretically sound?
a. Some were found to be ineffective
b. None were found to be harmful
c. Earning a professional degree assures that your efforts to help people will be effective
d. All of these - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Some were found to be ineffective
Suppose a newspaper reports that the average number of times students in your college or
university engage in binge drinking during the academic year is twice. What is appropriate to
conclude?
a. The typical student binge drinks approximately twice per year
,b. Most students binge drink approximately twice per year.
c. Both of these are appropriate conclusions.
d. None of these - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. None of these
Which of the following is/are good reasons for human service practitioners to learn about
statistics?
a. Some interventions have been found to be harmful.
b. Professional ethics.
c. Compassion for clients.
d. All of these - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. All of these
Which of the following is/are true about statistics?
a. Nobody misuses statistics to mislead people.
b. Statistics are irrelevant to clinical levels of practice.
c. Statistics can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
d. All of these. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. Statistics can help you evaluate the
effectiveness of your own practice.
If the average annual income for 10 people who are eating lunch together is $100,000, then:
a. The typical person at the table earns $100,000 per year.
b. It is conceivable that none of them earn $100,000 per year.
c. Most people at the table earn approximately $100,000 per year.
d. None of them earns more than $900,000 per year or less than $20,000 per year. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. It is conceivable that none of them earn $100,000 per year.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about learning about statistics/:
a. Statistics help us to summarize an otherwise overwhelming mass of data.
b. Learning about statistics can help make you a more effective advocate for policies you
think are desirable and against policies that you think are undesirable.
c. They are not relevant to administrative levels of practice.
d. Understanding statistics is an important aspect of evidence-based practice. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- c. They are not relevant to administrative levels of practice.
,T/F: The most important reason why practitioners should learn about statistics is that they
want to help people. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- true
T/F: Understanding statistics makes one a more compassionate practitioner. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- true
T/F: Keeping current with and critically appraising practice related studies and basing one's
practice on evidence-based knowledge makes one a more ethical practitioner. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- true
T/F: Because anyone can manipulate and distort statistics to support whatever point they are
trying to make, it is best to ignore statistics rather than understand them - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- false
T/F: Learning about statistics pertains primarily to levels of practice dealing with policy
analysis, and is of much less relevance to clinical practice. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- false
Evidence-base practice:
a. Is a list of empirically supported interventions that practitioners should employ regardless
of their practice judgment.
b. Is a process for making practice decisions based on integrating the best research evidence
with practice expertise and knowledge of client attributes.
c. Is a process for making practice decisions based solely on research evidence.
d. Assures practice effectiveness. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Is a process for making
practice decisions based on integrating the best research evidence with practice expertise and
knowledge of client attributes.
EBP questions can ask:
a. What intervention has the most likelihood of success?
b. What factors best predict desirable or undesirable outcomes?
c. What type of assessment tool should be used?
d. All of these. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- d. All of these
, Which of the following statements is true about searching for evidence in the second phase of
the EBP process?
a. You might have to try different search terms before finding what you need.
b. It is a bad idea to start your search by going to the websites of the Cochrane Collaboration
or the Campbell Collaboration.
c. Professional literature databases should be avoided.
d. All search engines will immediately connect you to original research studies that you can
read in their entirety. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. You might have to try different search
terms before finding what you need.
Which of the following statements is true about published research studies?
a. Some published research studies are fatally flawed.
b. Being published ensures that a research study is scientifically rigorous.
c. To be useful, research studies should be flawless.
d. Although some published studies might have minor flaws, none will be fatally flawed -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Some published research studies are fatally flawed.
Which of the following statements is true about selecting and implementing interventions
supported by research evidence?
a. The best scientific evidence should dictate the choice of intervention.
b. No matter how strong an intervention's evidence might be, that intervention is likely to be
inapplicable for some clients.
c. Once the intervention is chosen and implemented, the EBP process is concluded.
d. None of these - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. No matter how strong an intervention's
evidence might be, that intervention is likely to be inapplicable for some clients.
Which of the following statements is true about research evidence?
a. The best evidence available must be strong evidence based on studies that are virtually
flawless.
b. Interventions with very strong supporting evidence can be assumed to be effective when
you implement them.
c. If you can find no persuasive research evidence for any intervention applicable to your
target problem, and you therefore must intervene in the absence of supporting evidence, the
fifth stage of the EBP process (evaluating outcome) is no longer relevant or needed.
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