What Is the Reasonable Person Standard? How Is It Applied

question 62

Essay

What is the reasonable person standard? How is it applied to each of the following types of people?
a. Children
b. Persons with physical disabilities
c. Persons who are mentally retarded
d. Professional people with advanced degrees and training, such as doctors, lawyers, and accountants
e. Persons acting in emergency situations
f. Persons who violate statutory duties

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Definitions:

Situation

The set of environmental and contextual circumstances or conditions surrounding and affecting an event, action, or decision.

Demand Characteristics

Features of an experiment that communicate to the participant the experimenter’s hypothesis.

Margin Of Error

A statistic measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s results—for example, a 3% margin of error means that the survey’s result could be 3% lower or 3% higher than the average response—the larger the sample is, the smaller the margin of error is.

Measurement Validity

The extent to which a tool, test, or instrument accurately measures what it is intended to measure.