The Fact That Many People Will Talk Openly with Perfect

question 14

Multiple Choice

The fact that many people will talk openly with perfect strangers while on an airplane or a bus suggests that _________________.

• A) We communicate to maintain our sense of self.
• B) We communicate to exchange information.
• C) We communicate to develop relationships.
• D) We communicate to meet social needs.

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure of dispersion, indicating how spread out the values of a dataset are.

Symbol

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.

Numerator

The top number in a fraction, indicating how many parts of a whole are being considered.

Two-tailed Test

A statistical test in which the critical area for rejection of the null hypothesis is on both sides of the distribution.