According to Some Deviance Specialists,how Have Academic Definitions of Deviance

question 47

Multiple Choice

According to some deviance specialists,how have academic definitions of deviance changed in recent years?

• A)there has been a shift from objective to subjective definitions
• B)there has been a shift from subjective to objective definitions
• C)there has been a shift from emphasizing "personal pet peeves" to emphasizing "social deviance"
• D)there has been a shift from the "problem of definition" to a broader consensus about the definition of deviance
• E)there has been a shift from plural definitions of deviance to the singular definition that can be found in the dictionary

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Definitions:

Independent Sample

A sample that is selected from a population in such a way that the entities are not related or do not affect each other.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution of a specific statistic derived from a random selection.

Independent Sample

Samples that are collected in such a way that the selection of one sample does not influence the selection of another, ensuring that observations between samples are not related.

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.