What Is a Hashtag

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Multiple Choice

What is a hashtag?

• A) Represents the interconnection of relationships in a social network.
• B) Maps group contacts identifying who knows each other and who works together.
• C) Describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to organize it for future navigation, filtering, or search.
• D) Uses a keyword or phrase to identify a topic and is preceded by a hash or pound sign (#).

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Definitions:

Mean-level Changes

Adjustments or shifts in the average value of a variable or trait over time or across groups.

Rank-order Consistency

The degree to which the relative ordering of individuals on a particular trait remains the same over time, even if the absolute level of the trait changes.

Population

The total number of individuals or organisms within a specified area or group.

Cross-sectional

A form of research that focuses on analyzing data from a population or its representative part, specifically at a certain time frame.