The "Thumbs Up" Sign Means Something Is Good in Some

question 119

Multiple Choice

The "thumbs up" sign means something is good in some places, but is an obscene gesture in other places. This illustrates that _____________.

• A) hand gestures are not really symbols
• B) symbols may have different meanings among different groups of people
• C) there is a lot of misuse of the "thumbs up" gesture
• D) all symbols have universal meanings

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Definitions:

Unbiased Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a data set that is corrected for bias, accurately reflecting the spread of the data.

Square Root

A function in mathematics that generates the initial number upon being squared.

Standard Deviation

A metric that gauges the extent to which a collection of numbers is spread or varies.

Variance

A measure of how spread out a set of data is, specifically, the average of the squared differences from the mean.