The Normal

A persons mind is unique. Every person has his or her own way of thinking and learning. Not to mention, people come from different origins, which leads to some people having a higher vocabulary. Why is all this important in physics? In the article, “Talking to Learn Physics and Learning to Talk Physics” it states, “the development of physics discourse and conceptual understanding are different processes that depend upon one another for successful physics learning (Harlow, Otero 1).” This article…

impressive totals. This leads to the company seeming as if it is exceeding expectations and look good to management and investors. Also, employees could have produced units at a slower rate at the beginning of the year in order to produce units at a normal production rate after the budget is produced. This would enable employees to produce more units than budgeted for and still have idle time. This behavior is not ethical because it does not align with the IMA Statement of Ethical Professional…

according to Nikola Wolf Nelson (2010). This is because Linguistic Innateness Theory describes language development as a human talent that is unique, genetically determined, and innate. Also, this theory explains that direct teaching cannot explain normal development, minimal success may be a result of the efforts to teach language, according to (Nelson, 2010). According to Amanda’s background history, Amanda’s mother assists her in homework and provides her with reading tutor services twice a…

Examiner did not inquire about relevant mental or physical health related clinical history with Mr. Lewis. No inquiries regarding a learning disability, mental health diagnosis, substance use, or other health issues were discussed nor reported by Mr. Lewis. All information collected from Mr. Lewis was through observation, the natural course of the interview, and through the administration of the test. Mr. Lewis is a 40-year old Caucasian male. He is married and has one child. Mr. Lewis recently…

I was glad I put on more deoderant than normal this morning and I really really really missed my Starbucks that I had left in my car. I was daydreaming about how refreashing a mint chocolate chip flavored frappucinno would taste right about now when the loudspeakers went off. Straighting up, I…

The child that I tested for the PLS-5 Test was a four-year-old girl named Katelyn. Katelyn did pretty well for her chronological age, and she tested into the age equivalence bracket of four to seven years old. She is a very bright girl, although there are some weaker areas that she struggled with. Her focus on the test also varied throughout the test. At the beginning of the test, she was focused on the test and answered the questions quickly, but towards the end of the test session, she was…

column. Finally, we total the tally marks and add the final numbers. Frequency distribution helped us to calculate the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, an Oxford Scholar, contributed the law of error of normal distribution and developed an early version of the T distribution (Edgeworth). The first known recorded use occurred in 1895 meanwhile, Norwegian Anders Nicolai Kiaer first introduced the concept of stratified sampling. For example, in computer…

The article, “Standard Error of Measurement” by Leo M. Harvill from East Tennessee State University, provided a general introduction of Standard Error of Measurement (SEM). First, it introduced the basic concepts of test reliability. An obtained score or a raw score refers to the number of points obtained by an examinee. The obtained score could be influenced by several factors such as the ambiguity of test items, the fatigue of the examinee, and these factors make the obtained score unlikely to…

Why Women Not Having Children is Normal Gabrielle Moss is a 32 year old women woman, who works as an associate lifestyle editor for Bustle Magazine in New York City. She lives a fulfilling life with her partner in the Big Apple. Gabrielle can relate to women all over the country with the type of questions she and every other woman have been asked in their lifetime. “When are you going to have kids?” and “How many kids are you going to have?” Gabrielle’s response to these type of childbearing…

(in mm) in a hypothetical population of Paenibacillus bacteria (Whitlock and Schluter, 2015, pg 146). In the examples, a single colony is randomly sampled form the population. Since the probability is a bell-shape, the hypothetical population is a normal distribution. (Figure re-created using Microsoft Word shapes and…