Question

research application: psychology by the numbers part 1
how popular is psychology, anyway? lets explore some research on the topic.
the american psychological association reports that in 2009 (the most recent data available), nearly 30% of u.s. high school graduates took a psychology course while in high school. in other words, almost a million psychology - educated students graduated from u.s. high schools that year. whats more, between 1.2 and 1.8 million college students enroll in introductory psychology courses every year. thats a lot of people studying psychology! and its not just one or two courses - according to the national center for education statistics, psychology is the fourth most popular college major overall.

research application: psychology by the numbers part 1: checkpoint
total points: -/4 attempts left: 3
heres an example to get you started. consider the statement: more than a million high school students take a psych class each year.
thats an incorrect summary of the data from the american psychological association. more than a million high - school students graduated in 2009 with credits from a psychology course, but we dont know how many high school students take psychology each year. every graduate had four years to take the class. its unlikely that each one of them took the class in 2009, but you cant tell that from the data presented.
review the data showing who studies psychology, and decide if each of the following statements is a correct or incorrect summary of the data presented. these arent easy, but they arent tricks. the purpose of this activity is to focus on what the numbers actually mean. this level of precision is an important component of a scientific approach to psychology.
more than 300,000 high school students were enrolled in an ap psychology class in 2018.
○ this is a correct summary of the data.
○ this is not a correct summary of the data.

Explanation:

The provided data only includes the number of people who took the AP psychology exam in 2018 (over 300,000), not the number of students enrolled in AP psychology classes. Enrollment and exam participation are not the same metric, so the statement cannot be confirmed with the given data.

Answer:

This is not a correct summary of the data.