The Insanity Defense Is Originally Based on a Historic Case

question 38

Multiple Choice

The insanity defense is originally based on a historic case in England involving a man named

• A)Durham.
• B)Addington.
• C)M'Naghten.
• D)Tory.

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Variance

A measure of how spread out a set of data is, specifically, the average of the squared differences from the mean.

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