Punitive Damages May Be Recovered in a Case of Discrimination

question 41

True/False

Punitive damages may be recovered in a case of discrimination against a private employer if the employer acted with malice or reckless indifference.

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Definitions:

Empirical Rules

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, nearly all data will fall within three standard deviations of the mean.

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability, calculated as the difference between the third (75th percentile) and first quartile (25th percentile), that indicates the middle 50% of the data.

Midrange

The statistical measure calculated as the mean of the highest and lowest values in a data set, providing a simple estimation of the data’s central tendency.

Arithmetic Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, calculated by adding them together and then dividing by the number of values.