In Times When the Situation Is Uncertain or When Information

question 44

Multiple Choice

In times when the situation is uncertain or when information is difficult to obtain, what happens to our desire for social comparison?

• A) We are more likely to want to compare with others.
• B) We are less likely to want to compare with others.
• C) We prefer to be completely alone.
• D) We want to compare, but only with dissimilar others.

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Definitions:

Independent

Not influenced or controlled by others in terms of opinions or actions; in statistics, variables not affected by any other variables.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the dispersion or variability of a data set around its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Mean Weight

Mean weight refers to the average weight calculated by dividing the sum of all weights in a set by the number of weights.