Why Is It Incomplete to Simply Call Anthropology "The Study

question 12

Multiple Choice

Why is it incomplete to simply call anthropology "the study of humans"?

• A) Many other disciplines also study humans.
• B) The focus of anthropology is on pre-human creatures.
• C) Anthropologists study only certain aspects of human life.
• D) Anthropologists study all species of mammals.

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Definitions:

Geometric Mean

A mean or average which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers by using the product of their values (as opposed to the arithmetic mean which uses their sum).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value of a dataset when it's ordered from smallest to largest.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set.

Deviations

Differences between observed values and the average or expected values in a data set.