An Effective Test to Determine Whether an Individual Is Allergic

question 76

Multiple Choice

An effective test to determine whether an individual is allergic to a specific substance is to

• A)test for the allergen in the blood.
• B)test for levels of IgE specific for the allergen.
• C)test for high levels of IgG in the serum.
• D)inject high levels of the allergen so see if the patient goes into anaphylactic shock.

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Definitions:

75th Percentile

The value below which 75% of the data points in a dataset lie.

Q3

The third quartile in a data set, representing the value below which 75% of the data falls.

Q1

Stands for the first quartile in a data set, which is the median of the lower half of the data set.

Q2

Often refers to the median in the context of quartiles in descriptive statistics, which divides a data set into two equal parts.