When Studying Rape Victims, Burgess and Holmstrom (1979) Found That

question 45

Multiple Choice

When studying rape victims, Burgess and Holmstrom (1979) found that _____ of the victims had returned to normal functioning within 5 years after the rape.

• A) only 5%
• B) about half
• C) about three quarters
• D) over 95%

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Definitions:

Z-axis

The axis in a three-dimensional coordinate system representing the depth, perpendicular to both the X-axis (horizontal) and Y-axis (vertical).

Standard Deviations

A metric indicating the extent of variability or spread in a collection of values, denoting how far away the values deviate from the average.

Standard Normal Distribution

A type of normal distribution where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1, used in statistics for z-score calculations.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean.