A Recent Study of Adolescent Girls Indicated That

question 85

Multiple Choice

A recent study of adolescent girls indicated that

• A)approximately 90 percent of the girls had experienced athletic sexism.
• B)approximately two-thirds of the girls had experienced academic sexism.
• C)most of the girls had experienced sexual harassment at least once.
• D)None of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Terrorist Attacks

Violent acts intended to create fear, carried out by individuals or groups for ideological, religious, or political objectives.

Post Hoc Fallacy

A logical error where one assumes that since event A happened before event B, A must have caused B.

Correlation Problem

Issues arising from attempts to interpret or infer causality from purely correlational data without establishing a clear causal relationship.

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) directly results in another event (the effect).