One of Your Professors Constantly Uses the Term Mankind in Place

question 127

Multiple Choice

One of your professors constantly uses the term mankind in place of the term humanity.Why does this annoy you?

• A) The relationship between language and gender gets masked.
• B) Using the masculine form ignores women.
• C) Language becomes objective and standardized.
• D) Pronouns that show the gender of the person we expect to be in a particular occupation are missing.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

In this type of distribution, occurrences of data are more frequent near the mean and decrease in frequency as they move away from the mean, with the distribution being symmetric.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on random samples from a population, used to estimate population parameters.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are dispersed, showing the extent of deviation from the average.

Normal Distribution

A distribution of probabilities that is even on both sides of the mean, illustrating that values near the mean happen more often than values at a greater distance from the mean.