The Reason Why Males Are More Vulnerable to Poor Environments

question 8

Multiple Choice

The reason why males are more vulnerable to poor environments than females are may be because

• A)males make greater use of language-related brain areas.
• B)males have a longer developmental period for brain development.
• C)the volume of males' white matter peaks later.
• D)males' brains are also more lateralized

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Definitions:

Positively Skewed

A distribution of data where most of the values gather on the left side, with the tail extending to the right, indicating that the mean is greater than the median.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the highest peak in a distribution.

Extreme Values

The lowest or highest points in a data set, which are significant for analyzing behavior in statistical models, particularly in risk management and survival analysis.