Summarize Research on and the Effects of the Preference for Sons

question 45

Essay

Summarize research on and the effects of the preference for sons in the U.S. and across other cultures.

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Definitions:

Median

A value that divides a dataset into two equal halves, representing the middle value when the data set is ordered.

StdDev

A measurement that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values, same as Standard Deviation.

Mean

The mean value of a collection of numbers, obtained by dividing the total sum of the numbers by the quantity of numbers in the collection.

Median

The middle value in a dataset when it is arranged in ascending or descending order, or the average of the two middle values when the dataset has an even number of observations.