Thomas Robert Malthus Argued That

question 33

Multiple Choice

Thomas Robert Malthus argued that

• A) societies would steadily raise living standards in decades to come.
• B) population would increase in geometric progression.
• C) food production would increase so fast that future generations would be condemned to lives of obesity.
• D) food and other resources would increase in geometric progression.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; a threshold for determining statistical significance, usually denoted by alpha (α).

Null Hypothesis

In statistics, a hypothesis that there is no significant difference or association between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Mean Weight

The average mass of an object or collection of objects, obtained by adding their weights together and dividing by the number of objects.

Two Tailed Test

A statistical test used to determine if there are differences in two directions, assessing the possibility of extreme outcomes in both tails of the distribution.