The Traditional View Regarding Population and Growth in DVCs Is

question 158

Multiple Choice

The traditional view regarding population and growth in DVCs is that

• A) the most important factor affecting population growth in DVCs is per capita consumption of energy.
• B) unemployment and underemployment are the major sources of population growth in DVCs.
• C) reduced birth rates must come first in DVCs, and then higher per capita incomes will follow.
• D) higher per capita incomes must come first in DVCs, and then reduced birth rates will follow.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are spread, showing the distance of the values from the average.

Probability

The measure or quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

NORM.DIST

A function in statistics that returns the normal distribution for a specified mean and standard deviation.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, often used to estimate the precision of a sample mean.