After a Tragic Drag Race That Kills Several Students When

question 40

Multiple Choice

After a tragic drag race that kills several students when their cars crash,the high school teachers decide to take action to reduce risk-taking behaviors within its student body. If the teachers consider recent research on risk taking in adolescence,their best course of action would be to:

• A)Identify and sponsor opportunities for reasonable,supervised risk taking.
• B)Invite guest speakers whose lives have been adversely affected by the poor choices they made as teenagers.
• C)Present national statistics regarding the probabilities of serious consequences when adolescents drive at high speeds,engage in unprotected sex,and so on.
• D)Ask the police department to increase late-night supervision in parts of town where students have been known to do foolish things.

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Point Estimate

A single value or statistic that serves as the best guess or estimate of a population parameter.