If a Researcher Uses a Few Standardized Survey Questions to Assess

question 36

Multiple Choice

If a researcher uses a few standardized survey questions to assess depression symptoms and finds that women score higher on these symptoms than men, the gender gap in these observations might be attributable to:

• A) issues in how the depression symptoms were measured.
• B) men being under more strain than women.
• C) men and women being equally strained.
• D) the fact that depression cannot be described by any type of survey question.

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Definitions:

Pareto Optimal

An allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Utility Function

A mathematical representation used in economics to model the satisfaction or happiness a consumer derives from consuming goods and services.

Edgeworth Box

A diagram used in microeconomics to show the distribution of resources and the optimality of trade-offs between two agents in an economy.

Pareto Efficient

A condition where resources are distributed in such a manner that improving the situation of one person necessitates the detriment of another.