Sam Believes That Members of Another Ethnic Group Are a Threat

question 473

Multiple Choice

Sam believes that members of another ethnic group are a threat to his obtaining a good job or receiving financial aid to attend college. Sam is exhibiting

• A)discrimination.
• B)personal prejudice.
• C)group prejudice.
• D)stereotyping.

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Definitions:

Skewed

A description of the asymmetry in the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, where the tail of the distribution is longer on either the right (positively skewed) or the left (negatively skewed) side.

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of data points collected from a sample of a population.

Median

The middle value of a data set when it is ordered from least to greatest, effectively splitting the data set into two equal parts.

Sample Variance

A measure of the variability or spread of a sample data set, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the sample mean.