Which of the Following Is True According to the Winnowing

question 86

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true according to the winnowing hypothesis?

• A) Marriage between two individuals of different ethnicities,income,social class,or religion does not happen.
• B) The winnowing hypothesis suggests that people select mates based on such areas as education,race,age,religion,and shared values.
• C) The winnowing hypothesis suggests that selecting mates is based on real-world factors such as finances,family but never on political attitudes.
• D) The transition to marriage using a winnowing or mate selection process leads to considerably less careful selectivity in dating,mating,cohabitating,and marriage.
• E) Men and women use the same factor of income in selecting a marital partner but the differences come in race,religion,education,age,and social class.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A statistic that measures the average distance that a sample statistic, such as the mean, deviates from the actual population mean.

Alternative Hypothesis

A statement that contradicts the null hypothesis and is tested directly in a hypothesis testing framework, assuming the null hypothesis is false.

T Procedure

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups when the variances are unknown and assumed to be equal.

Sign Test

A nonparametric statistical test used to evaluate the difference between paired samples, based on the direction of changes rather than the magnitude.