The Idea That People's Social and Economic Development and Behaviour

question 145

Multiple Choice

The idea that people's social and economic development and behaviour are fundamentally shaped by their physical environment is known as

• A) environmental determinism.
• B) ecocentrism.

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical procedures used to summarize, organize, and simplify data, including measures of central tendency and variability.

Inferential Statistics

Statistical methods that allow researchers to make inferences or predictions about a population based on a sample of data.

Measures of Variation

Statistical tools used to describe the distribution or spread of a data set, including range, variance, and standard deviation.