Early Studies Showed That Decisions Made in Groups Were Riskier

question 57

Multiple Choice

Early studies showed that decisions made in groups were riskier than decisions made on one's own.Later research,however,showed that group decisions are not always riskier than individual decisions but do tend to be more extreme.This phenomenon is captured by the concept of

• A) social loafing.
• B) group polarization.
• C) social inoculation.
• D) groupthink.

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Definitions:

Nonparametric Methods

Statistical methods that do not rely on data belonging to any particular distribution, often used when data doesn't meet the assumptions required for parametric testing.

Parametric Methods

Statistical methods that assume the data samples have a specific distribution.

Rigid Requirements

Strict, inflexible criteria or conditions that must be met or adhered to.

Right-tailed Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to compare two independent groups to determine if one group's median is significantly greater than the other group's median.