In the Most Famous Case of Ablatio Penis

question 24

Multiple Choice

In the most famous case of ablatio penis:

• A)The child (Bruce)was born as a hermaphrodite and the decision was made to rear him as a girl (Brenda)
• B)Money counseled the parents that if they reared the child as a girl,"she" would accept a female gender identity,even though the genotype was male (XY)
• C)The gender reassignment was successful
• D)Money showed that the "neutral-at-birth" position was in fact correct

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that assumes no statistical significance or effect exists in a set of observations.

Level Of Significance

The threshold below which a statistical result is considered significant, indicating that an observed effect is unlikely to be due to chance alone.

Quantitative Data

Data that can be quantified and verified, and is amenable to statistical manipulation, typically involving numerical values.

Parametric Statistical Test

Statistical tests based on assumptions about the population parameters and the distribution of the sample data.