Summing Up the Research on the Determinants of Sexual Orientation

question 87

Multiple Choice

Summing up the research on the determinants of sexual orientation, we can say which of the following with confidence?

• A)Sexual orientation is a choice.
• B)Sexual orientation has a degree of heritability.
• C)Sexual orientation is caused by hormone exposure prenatally.
• D)Sexual orientation is a result of family life and childhood experience.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, used in statistics to quantify the spread of a data set.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; a threshold used to determine the critical value at which the observed data is considered statistically significant.

Significance Level

The chance of wrongly rejecting the true null hypothesis during a statistical examination.

Confidence Interval

A statistical range, with a given probability, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.