Why Is Ape Language Such a Controversial Area of Study?​

question 137

Multiple Choice

Why is ape language such a controversial area of study?​

• A)​Apes cannot actually communicate; it is all by instinct.
• B)​Ape language challenges the notion of human uniqueness.
• C)​Ape language systems are complex, but they do not involve utterance.
• D)​Apes do not have the intellectual ability to discern meanings.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are.

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.