Which of the following circumstances is likely to result in the highest stan- dard error for the mean? You may assume each of these variables is roughly normally
distributed and that samples were done responsibly. Explain why you chose the answer
you did.
1. A sample of 221 final exam scores which has a sample standard deviation of 11
points
2. A sample of 34 radio listeners about how many podcasts they listen to, in which
the sample standard deviation is 11 podcasts
3. Data collected on a sample of 221 newborn babies which showed that their gestation
lengths varied with a standard deviation of 6 days
4. A sample of 34 Emergency Room patients recording how many hours they spent in
the hospital, with a standard deviation of 6 hours