When People Are Given Reports to Review Regarding a Custody

question 407

Multiple Choice

When people are given reports to review regarding a custody decision, and then asked the question, "Which parent should be denied custody?" most people tend to

• A)focus on the base rate of custody.
• B)ignore the base rate of custody.
• C)look for positive qualities in the parents.
• D)look for negative qualities in the parents.

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

The threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test, often set at a value like 0.05 or 0.01.

F Table

A table used in statistics for finding critical values of the F-distribution, important in analysis of variance (ANOVA) testing.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of values within a population, indicating how much the data points differ from the population mean.

F-Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variances for comparing sample variances.