According to Edmund Leach, Religious Symbols Are Like Computer Chips

question 1

Multiple Choice

According to Edmund Leach, religious symbols are like computer chips in that they

• A)are absolute and never change.
• B)are used by people who do not understand them.
• C)store information and ideas.
• D)are both examples of the "material culture" of modern societies.
• E)none of the above; Leach thinks that there are no analogies to religious symbols.

Understand the calculation and interpretation of expected values and standard errors in sampling distributions.

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Calculate probabilities involving binomial distributions and their normal approximations.

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