Karen Merlott, VP for Strategic Planning at a Recruitment Firm

Multiple Choice

Karen Merlott, VP for Strategic Planning at a recruitment firm, recently conducted a survey to determine customer satisfaction with job placement.She distributed the survey to 45 of the most recently placed executives.Two items on the survey asked them to rate the importance of "initial interview process" and "satisfaction of final job placement" on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 meaning "not important" and 10 meaning "highly important") .Her staff assembled the following statistics on these two items. $$\begin{array} { | l | c | c | } \hline & \text { Iritial Interview Process } & \begin{array} { c } \text { Satisfaction of Final Job } \\\text { Placernent }\end{array} \\\hline \text { Mearl } & 8.5 & 7.5 \\\hline \text { Mediarn } & 9 & 8.5 \\\hline \text { Mode } & 9.0 & 9 \\\hline \text { Standard Deviation } & 1.0 & 1.5 \\\hline\end{array}$$ What can Karen conclude from these statistics?

A) The Initial Interview Process distribution is positively skewed.
B) The Initial Interview Process distribution is not skewed.
C) The Satisfaction of Final Job Placement distribution is negatively skewed.
D) The Satisfaction of Final Job Placement distribution is positively skewed.
E) Both are symmetrically distributed.