Which of the Following Statements About Social Norms Is FALSE

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about social norms is FALSE?

• A)Social norms are rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of various groups.
• B)Cultural differences, ethnicity, and gender are factors that influence social norms.
• C)Age, disability, and sexual orientation have not been shown to influence social norms.
• D)Social norms are too often based on the behavior of white, middle-class heterosexual, middle-class Western males, rather than being culturally sensitive.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom refer to the number of values in a statistical calculation that are free to vary without violating the constraints of the calculation.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a population data set, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Interval Estimate

An estimate of a population parameter that gives an interval believed to contain the parameter.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution without violating any constraints.