A Behavioral Geneticist Would Only Want to Study Identical Twins

question 127

True/False

A behavioral geneticist would only want to study identical twins, due to their shared genetic code. Fraternal, or non-identical, twins would not reveal anything interesting in such research.

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Definitions:

Number

An arithmetic value that represents a particular quantity and is used in counting and making calculations.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a mechanism, minus the number of parameters that constrain these values.

Student t Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Parameter v

In statistics, it can refer to a parameter associated with a specific distribution or model, often used to denote degrees of freedom in certain distributions.