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Measurement frequency distributions are constructed as continuous curves.
Consider the following graph on shoe size from our sample.

This is a normal curve and the line in the middle is the mean.

Many frequency distributions in Psychology are normal (unimodal, symmetric, and bell-shaped)

Each box on the graph represents a score.

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