Jordan Is a Developmental Psychologist Who Studies Bullying and Aggression

Multiple Choice

Jordan is a developmental psychologist who studies bullying and aggression in elementary school students. Her days often consist of spending time in the schoolyard with the children and making careful notes of their interactions. She pays particular attention to incidents of bullying in the schoolyard and is trying to find personality characteristics that are associated with bullying. In her most recent study, she found that being a bully is negatively correlated with academic performance at the 0.05 level of significance.
-When performing a statistical analysis of acts of aggression she observed,Jordan plots her data against aggressive personality traits and notices a positively skewed distribution.This means that Bob (who has the most aggressive traits of any child in the schoolyard) instigated ______________________.

A) more acts of aggression than other students at the school
B) fewer acts of aggression than other students at the school
C) exactly the same amount of acts of aggression as other students at the school
D) acts of aggression, but we cannot make any inferences based only on the shape of the distribution