What Is the Main Take-Home Message from the Authors' Discussion

question 56

Multiple Choice

What is the main take-home message from the authors' discussion of autism and facilitated communication?

• A)Autistic children want to communicate with their parents but need someone to facilitate the process.
• B)Even in the face of overwhelming evidence,some people won't abandon their erroneous beliefs.
• C)Psychological research is dangerous because it allows anyone to find support for any idea or opinion.
• D)The scientific method is not an effective means for finding solutions for persons who live with autism and other psychological disorders.

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Standard Deviation

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Confidence Interval

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Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all values in a given population, quantifying how much the values differ from the population mean.

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