The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) is a subsection of the National Household S

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The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) is a subsection of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) that consists of 34 items, where 20 items are intended to measure aggressiveness, and the other 14 items are to measure depression level. All 34 items are scored dichotomously (i.e., 0 for a 'disagree' response and 1 for an 'agree' response). The scores on the CBCL constitutes a normal population with mean 23 and standard deviation 3. In the year 2012, the survey was administered to a random sample of 400 households in a certain state. Explain why a CBCL value of 15 from any given household is considered acceptable, but a sample mean CBCL score of 15 from the 400 households would indicate that something had gone wrong in the study.

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TheChild Behavior Checklist(CBCL) is a widely-used method of identifying problem behavior in children.It is a component in the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment developed by

Problems are identified by a respondent who knows the child well, usually a parent or other care giver. Alternative measures are available for teachers (the Teacher's Report Form) and the child (the Youth Self Report). There are two versions of the checklist. The preschool checklist (CBCL/1

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