Agriculture, Urbanization, and Literacy Appear to Have Produced _________ in Human

question 84

Multiple Choice

 Agriculture, urbanization, and literacy appear to have produced _________ in human brain size.

• A) large amounts of additional growth
• B) modest amounts of additional growth
• C) no apparent changes
• D) possible reductions

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Definitions:

Matched Pairs Experiment

An experimental design where subjects are paired based on certain criteria, and each pair is divided between treatment and control groups to measure the effect of an intervention.

Ordinal Data

Refers to a type of data in statistics that represents categories with a meaningful order, but the differences between the categories cannot be quantified.

Interval Data

A type of numerical data in which the intervals between each value are equally split, but there is no true zero point.

Spearman's Rank-Correlation

A nonparametric measure of rank correlation that assesses the strength and direction of association between two ranked variables.