Judge Aaron Persky Was Asked by Prosecutors to Sentence a Man

question 16

Multiple Choice

Judge Aaron Persky was asked by prosecutors to sentence a man found guilty of rape to six years in prison.Instead,Aaron Persky handed down a sentence of six months in county jail.Many felt that by handing down a light sentence for a serious crime,Aaron Persky was normalizing

• A) transphobia.
• B) intersectionality.
• C) the feminization of poverty.
• D) rape culture.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

A type of probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Sample Variances

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a sample.

Matched Pairs Experiment

A research layout where participants are matched based on specific criteria, and within each pair, one individual is assigned each of the treatments.

Observational

A method of collecting data without manipulating the study environment or subjects, simply observing and recording information as it occurs naturally.