Amanda Is a Single Mother and Chloe Is Also a Mother,but

question 13

Multiple Choice

Amanda is a single mother and Chloe is also a mother,but married.Both women are 30 years old and have a five-year-old child.Which one can be expected to find a job first?

• A)Amanda because employers will view Chloe as having too many obligations.
• B)Amanda because the baby's father's family has connections.
• C)Chloe because she has more social capital in the community to help her.
• D)Chloe only if she has better skills that are valuable to an employer.

---

Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, commonly denoted by alpha and used as a threshold for determining the statistical significance of a result.

Parametric Test

A type of hypothesis test that assumes the sample data comes from a population that fits a certain distribution, typically a normal distribution.

Z-statistic

A measure used in statistics to describe the relationship between the standard deviation of the distribution and the deviation of a point from the mean.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, also known as the alpha level, used as a criterion for statistical significance.