When Darren, a White American, Failed to Secure a Job

question 51

Multiple Choice

When Darren, a White American, failed to secure a job at a leading private bank in Salt Lake City, he blamed the immigrants for his plight. The immigrants, in this instance, become the ________.

• A) discriminators
• B) pluralists
• C) scapegoats
• D) stereotypes

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

In statistics, a hypothesis that there is no significant difference or association between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Mean Weight

The average mass of an object or collection of objects, obtained by adding their weights together and dividing by the number of objects.

Two Tailed Test

A statistical test used to determine if there are differences in two directions, assessing the possibility of extreme outcomes in both tails of the distribution.

Test-statistic

A value calculated from sample data during hypothesis testing, used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.