In 2016,scientists Warned That the World's Giraffe Population Dropped 40

question 75

Multiple Choice

In 2016,scientists warned that the world's giraffe population dropped 40 percent over the past thirty years and is threatened with extinction.Based on what you read in the textbook,how would contemporary sociologists most likely understand this phenomenon?

• A) They would take the human domination of nature for granted.
• B) They would ignore the problem since it concerns animals,not humans.
• C) They would attempt to understand how humans are not exempt from the "web of nature."
• D) They would use the "human exceptionalism paradigm" to find a solution.

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Definitions:

DfWG

Degrees of Freedom Within Groups, related to variance analysis, expressing the number of independent pieces of information within groups.

Respondents

Individuals who provide data or answers in a survey, study, or experiment.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraints.

F-ratio

A statistic used in ANOVA tests to compare the variability between group means to the variability within groups.