The more heterogeneous the distribution of scores,
A) the smaller the standard deviation
B) the larger the standard deviation
C) the more the distribution tends to be skewed
D) the greater the chance of excluding extreme scores

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The more heterogeneous the distribution of scores, the larger the standard deviation. This is because a wider range of scores increases the distance between individual scores and the mean, resulting in a larger spread of scores and therefore a larger standard deviation.

The More Heterogeneous the Distribution of Scores