document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=605858>Question 605858</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> The movie rating Web site Rotten Tomatoes reported that 92 percent of a sample of 39 movie critics hated the 2005 horror movie The Fog. Is the 92 percent figure a statistic or a parameter?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A. 	Parameter<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "B. 	Statistic </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The key word of that sentence above is the word \"sample\". Whenever you're talking about a sample, you're going to be dealing with statistics. Examples of statistics are sample means and sample standard deviations.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Note: Parameters deal with populations.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is B. Statistic </SPAN>\n" );
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