Reverse Discrimination Refers to Achieving Affirmative Action by Remedying the Underrepresentation

question 49

True/False

Reverse discrimination refers to achieving affirmative action by remedying the underrepresentation of a given race or sex in a traditionally segregated job by considering race and gender when hiring or promoting individuals.

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Definitions:

Chi-Squared Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in statistics when a normal distribution is squared, commonly used in significance testing.

Degrees of Freedom

The count of distinct values or measures that can be allocated to a statistical distribution while adhering to all restrictions.

Chi-Squared Distribution

A probability distribution that is commonly used in hypothesis testing and models the distribution of sum of squares of independent standard normal random variables.

Chi-Square Distribution

A probability distribution that is used in statistical significance tests, especially for categorical data.