What Can We Conclude Based on the Research in Women's

question 3

Multiple Choice

What can we conclude based on the research in women's representation in STEM ?

• A) Women are underrepresented in all of these fields, although numbers of women in these fields has been rising
• B) Women tend to be underrepresented in biology and physics but are represented at the same rate as men in computer science
• C) Women tend to be underrepresented in some, but not all, of these fields.
• D) Women are represented in number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the STEM field but are underrepresented in the workforce of these professions

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a chosen statistic, produced from a sample taken at random.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a specified statistic obtained from a random sample, employed for making deductions about the overall population.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean.