The Prevailing View That Alcohol Abuse Usually Follows a Predictable

question 61

Multiple Choice

The prevailing view that alcohol abuse usually follows a predictable downward spiral was based on Jellinek's mid-twentieth-century survey of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members, which asked them how alcohol had affected them physically and psychologically.Data from this survey are now considered inaccurate because

• A)respondents faked their answers to the questions on the survey.
• B)too few AA members answered the survey questions.
• C)the survey was sent only to older members of AA, so information on the progression of alcohol use was not available.
• D)Jellinek himself became an alcoholic and never finished the research.

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