Charlie Is at a High Genetic Risk for Alcoholism

question 138

Multiple Choice

Charlie is at a high genetic risk for alcoholism. However, he grew up in a family in which neither parent ever abused alcohol. The history of his family's drinking behavior ______ the likelihood of his
Becoming an alcoholic.

• A) reduces
• B) nullifies
• C) increases
• D) would not affect

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population, representing a central point around which the values of the population are distributed.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a specified level of confidence.

Sample Size

Sample size refers to the number of individual observations or data points collected and used in a statistical analysis.