Data on Armed Conflict or Sociopolitical Conflict and Children Indicates

question 32

Multiple Choice

Data on armed conflict or sociopolitical conflict and children indicates

• A)exposure to war and human tragedy is rare in children in countries with high sociopolitical conflict as they are protected or shielded from the horrors by adults.
• B)in Sierra Leone, children as young as 7 were in combat or were forced into other front line service.
• C)there are few, if any, gender differences in war related experiences.
• D)there is little evidence of resilience in these children as they have simply seen too much.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test, used to determine the likelihood of a hypothesis being true.

Level of Significance

The threshold in hypothesis testing that determines whether a p-value indicates a statistically significant result, typically set at 0.05 or 5%.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis, depending on the level of significance set for the test.

Chi-Square Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical significance testing, especially for categorical data and goodness-of-fit tests.