The Fact That Trying to Assign Gender Is Not Always

question 68

Multiple Choice

The fact that trying to assign gender is not always successful suggests that

• A)the surgery was not performed early enough.
• B)the child did not receive follow-up hormones during childhood and adolescence.
• C)prenatal hormones may cause the genitals to mature differently as the child reaches puberty.
• D)the best course of treatment for intersexual persons may be different for different persons.

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Definitions:

ANCOVA

Analysis of Covariance, a statistical technique used to adjust the effects of one or more quantitative independent variables while comparing the means of two or more groups.

Path Analysis

A specialized form of multiple regression analysis used to describe the directed dependencies among a set of variables.

Path Analysis

A statistical technique used to describe the directed dependencies among a set of variables.

Multivariate Analysis

A set of statistical techniques used to analyze data that involves more than one variable, understanding the effect and relationships among them.