When Purdie-Vaughns and Others (2008) Presented African-American Corporate Professionals with a Brochure

question 43

Multiple Choice

When Purdie-Vaughns and others (2008) presented African-American corporate professionals with a brochure for a fictitious management consulting firm, they found that

• A) if the brochure depicted a low level of minority representation, they were uncomfortable with the idea that the firm was colorblind.
• B) if the brochure depicted a low level of minority representation, they were comfortable with the idea that the firm was colorblind.
• C) if the brochure depicted a high level of minority representation, they were uncomfortable with the idea that the firm was colorblind.
• D) the professionals were uncomfortable with the colorblind firm regardless of what was depicted in the brochure.

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Definitions:

Outliers

Outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially indicating a measurement variation or error.

Symmetrical

A characteristic of a shape or distribution where one half is a mirror image of the other half, usually about a central point or axis.

Unimodal Distribution

A type of distribution that has a single peak or mode, showing one predominant frequency of data points.

Negatively Skewed Distribution

A distribution shape where the tail is on the left side, indicating that the bulk of values are concentrated on the right.