Formerly Called Iron Triangles, ______ Are Informal Groupings of Interest

question 35

Multiple Choice

Formerly called iron triangles, ______ are informal groupings of interest groups, congressional subcommittees, and an executive agency that are less likely to be influenced by public opinion, since they typically work closely together out of the public eye.

• A) independent regulatory commissions
• B) issue networks
• C) advocacy coalitions
• D) filibusters

Recognize historical preferences for patrilateral parallel-cousin marriages in certain cultures.

Define group marriage and its terminology.

Understand the legal and genetic considerations of marriage prohibitions in the United States.

Identify cultures that traditionally practice polyandry.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Variability

A measure of how spread out or dispersed the values in a dataset are.

Bimodal

Bimodal describes a distribution having two different modes, which are the most frequently occurring data points in a dataset.

Distribution

The way in which values are spread or distributed across a range in a dataset.