Ethical Theories

question 15

Multiple Choice

Ethical theories

• A) make general claims about what makes right acts right and wrong ones wrong.
• B) are applicable to all decisions made by engineers and everyone else, such as politicians, doctors, philosophy professors, and movie stars.
• C) should be to engineering ethics what math is to the engineering sciences: a solid foundation on which precise conclusions about real-world problems can be based.
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Independent

In statistics, a term used to describe two or more variables that are not associated with each other; each variable's distribution does not depend on the values of others.

Dependent

In statistics, a variable whose value depends on the influence or measurement of another variable.

Proportion

A statistical measure that represents the fraction of the total number of outcomes in a given category relative to the total number of outcomes in all categories.

Observations

Data collected or measured during an experiment or survey. They are the individual values recorded during the statistical study.