Nearly Half of All Marriages End in Divorce

question 131

Multiple Choice

Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce.Yet in a study of 137 applying for a marriage license,most rated their own chance of divorce as zero.This finding illustrates

• A)false consensus.
• B)self-efficacy.
• C)unrealistic optimism.
• D)self-verification.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used as a basis for comparison in many statistical methodologies.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to make inferences about the population.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric distribution in the shape of a bell, indicating that occurrences of data close to the mean are more common than those far from the mean.

Statistic

A statistic is a single measure of some attribute of a sample, used to infer or estimate the corresponding attribute in the population.