Which of the Following Describes the Disparate Impact Standard of Discrimination

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following describes the disparate impact standard of discrimination?

• A) whether a company intends to implement a policy to treat racial minorities worse than whites
• B) whether company policies actually create equality of outcome
• C) whether an employment policy has negative consequences for racial minorities
• D) whether a company pays racial minorities as much as women
• E) whether a company intends to implement a policy to discriminate against women

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Definitions:

Empirically Tested

Evaluated or tested based on observations or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Experimental Method

A scientific approach to research in which an investigator manipulates one or more variables to determine their effect on a certain outcome.

Cause-and-Effect

A relationship where one event (the cause) makes another event happen (the effect).

Dependent Variable

In experimental research, it's the outcome or response that is measured to assess the effect of the independent variable.