The document discusses z-scores and standardization. A z-score is a statistic that indicates how many standard deviations an observation is above or below the mean. It is calculated by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and dividing by the population standard deviation. This process converts raw scores to standardized z-scores that allow comparison across different data sets and distributions. The document provides examples of calculating z-scores and discusses how standardization keeps the distribution unchanged but centers it on a value of 0.