You Have Read an Article in the Newspaper About a Rapist

question 34

Multiple Choice

You have read an article in the newspaper about a rapist who was convicted under a "sexual predator law." You know that this person will be

• A) hospitalized immediately in a psychiatric institution that has a sexual offenders unit.
• B) sentenced to an indefinite term in a prison that has a separate section for rapists.
• C) hospitalized for treatment and then imprisoned if the treatment is not effective.
• D) incarcerated for a specific term and then civilly committed if judged still dangerous.

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Definitions:

P-value

A measure in statistics that helps in assessing the strength of the results from a hypothesis test, indicating the probability of observing the data if the null hypothesis is true.

Degrees of Freedom

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Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, typically in the context of parameter estimation.

ANOVA F Test

A statistical method used to determine if there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.