Professor Perlman from Question 3 Found That Textbook a Contained

question 10

Multiple Choice

Professor Perlman from question 3 found that textbook A contained the word "he" 80 times, whereas textbook B contained it 20 times. In addition, textbook A used the word "chairman" 16 times, whereas textbook B used it only 4 times. Perlman was correct in concluding that​

• A) ​textbook A was four times as sexist as textbook B.
• B) textbook B was one-fourth as sexist as textbook A.​
• C) the words "he" and "chairman" appeared four times more in textbook A than in textbook B.​
• D) textbook A was more sexist than textbook B from the standpoint of latent content coding​

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