Which of the Following Statements Concerning Socioeconomic Class and Childhood

question 290

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements concerning socioeconomic class and childhood development is correct?

• A) There seems to be no difference in growth patterns based on socioeconomic status.
• B) Children from the lower economic classes tend to be somewhat larger, but less robust than those from the higher classes.
• C) Children from higher economic classes tend to be somewhat larger, but less robust than those from lower classes.
• D) Children who grow up in more favorable economic conditions are larger than those who grow up in less favorable conditions.

Understand how to estimate the difference in population proportions with confidence intervals.

Know how to use the pooled proportion estimate in hypothesis testing.

Recognize the conditions required for using the normal approximation to the binomial in testing differences between population proportions.

Calculate and interpret the p-value in hypothesis testing.

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