AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is ranking? What is rating?
A
Individual score, comparing to others.
B
Comparing to others, individual score.
C
Comparing to no one, comparing to others.
D
Individual scores, comparing to no one.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Rating is the level of quality of an item, ranking is the measurement of overall performance.

Detailed explanation-2: -In statistics, ranking is the data transformation in which numerical or ordinal values are replaced by their rank when the data are sorted. For example, the numerical data 3.4, 5.1, 2.6, 7.3 are observed, the ranks of these data items would be 2, 3, 1 and 4 respectively.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ranking is another way by which test scores can be organized according to Calderon and Gonzales. It is used to say where someone or something is on a scale that shows how good they are, or what position they have, compared with other people or things. Arrange the scores from higher to lowest.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ranking technique directly ranks items by training a model to predict the ranking of one item over another item. In the training model, it is possible to have items, ranking one over the other by having a “score” for each item. Higher ranked items have higher scores and lower ranked items have lower scores.

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