What Is the Intended Purpose of an Honor Killing

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Multiple Choice

What is the intended purpose of an honor killing?

• A) To restore the family's honor from disgrace brought on by a family member's actions
• B) To get back at a person outside of the family who has aggressed against the family
• C) To increase a family's socioeconomic standing
• D) To harm a person that a family has come to hate intensely

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution or a parameter estimation, subtracting the number of parameters estimated.

Correlation Coefficients

Numeric measures that describe the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.

Direct Correlation

A statistical relationship between two variables where both variables move in the same direction.

Nondirectional Correlation

Nondirectional correlation describes the relationship between two variables without specifying whether the relationship is positive or negative, indicating only that a correlation exists.