After Being Held Captive for Over Nine Months by a Drifter

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After being held captive for over nine months by a drifter andhis female companion, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was finallyrescued by the police. When details of her captivity were widely publicized, some observers publicly questioned why the girl never tried to escape or get the attention of the police. Such responses illustrate an attributional pattern called diffusion of responsibility.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a sampling distribution, often used in estimating parameters.

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is used to estimate the true value of a population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, calculated for the entire population.

Confidence Interval

A statistical range, with a given probability, that contains the true parameter of the population.