The "Leontief Paradox" Refers to the Empirical Finding Obtained by Wassily

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Multiple Choice

The "Leontief paradox" refers to the empirical finding obtained by Wassily Leontief that, even though the United States was generally thought to be a relatively __________ country, it was found to be __________.

• A) capital-abundant; exporting relatively labor-intensive goods and importing
• Relatively capital-intensive goods
• B) labor-abundant; exporting relatively capital-intensive goods and importing
• Relatively labor-intensive goods
• C) skilled-labor-abundant; exporting relatively unskilled-labor-intensive goods
• And importing relatively skilled-labor-intensive goods
• D) capital-abundant; exporting relatively skilled-labor-intensive goods and
• Importing relatively unskilled-labor-intensive goods

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Definitions:

Independence

Independence in statistics means that two events have no influence on each other, indicating that the occurrence of one event does not affect the probability of the other occurring.

Level of Significance

The threshold used in statistical testing to determine whether the observed data is sufficiently inconsistent with the null hypothesis, commonly reported as a p-value.

Blood Type

A classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells.

Gender

Socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender-diverse people.