One Far-Reaching Implication of the Results of Milgram's Experiment on Obedience

question 146

Multiple Choice

One far-reaching implication of the results of Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority is that

• A) there is a growing tendency for young people to show disrespect for their elders.
• B) only uneducated people follow bad orders without questioning them or challenging the authority that made them.
• C) many people will follow unreasonable and dangerous orders.
• D) the government needs to have a strong method of enforcing its laws if it expects people to obey them.

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Definitions:

F-distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the testing of whether two population variances are equal; used in analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Population Variances

The measure of how data points in an entire population are spread out from the population mean.

Population Variance

A measure that quantifies how much the values in a population deviate from the mean of the population.

Profit Margin

The financial metric that calculates the percentage of revenue that exceeds the costs of producing that revenue, indicating the profitability.