The Magazine Desperate Wives Publishes a Survey of Its Female

question 206

Multiple Choice

The magazine Desperate Wives publishes a survey of its female readers called "The Sex Life of the American Wife." It reports that 87 percent of all wives like to make love in rubber boots. The critical flaw in this research would be __________

• A) the fact that the sample is not representative of American wives.
• B) the fact that a psychological test, rather than a survey, should have been given.
• C) the fact that rubber boots are not equally available in all regions of the country.
• D) the fact that making love has not been operationally defined.

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Definitions:

Codominance

A genetic scenario where two alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed, resulting in offspring with a phenotype that is neither dominant nor recessive.

Allele

Alternative form of a gene; a gene pair contains two alleles.

Dominant Gene

A gene that expresses its phenotype over another gene (the recessive gene) when the two are present in a heterozygous condition.

Huntington Disease

A hereditary neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor dysfunction, cognitive decline, and psychiatric issues.