A researcher asks a sample of people about their attitudes toward same-sex marriage and concludes that most people in her sample are strongly in favor of it, with relatively few people either undecided or against it. She reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is: (normal, flat, skewed, or bimodal) This totally confuses me as to how to figure this out.

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Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
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A researcher asks a sample of people about their attitudes toward same-sex marriage and concludes that most people in her sample are strongly in favor of it, with relatively few people either undecided or against it. She reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is:

(normal, flat, skewed, or bimodal)

This totally confuses me as to how to figure this out.

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