When Writing to Audiences Whose First Language Is Not English,using

question 29

Multiple Choice

When writing to audiences whose first language is not English,using humor is generally

• A) a bad idea, since jokes usually depend on culture-specific information.
• B) an excellent way to establish a positive relationship.
• C) acceptable, but only in high-context cultures.
• D) acceptable, but only in low-context cultures.
• E) a good way to establish rapport, but only if you stick to ethnocentric jokes.

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Definitions:

Probability Distribution

A mathematical function that provides the probabilities of occurrence of various possible outcomes in an experiment.

Standard Deviation

An important measure in statistics that expresses the variability or spread of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Random Variable

A variable representing numerical results from a stochastic process.

Random Experiment

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