We Have All Heard That Dietary Fats Are Linked to Higher

question 28

Multiple Choice

We have all heard that dietary fats are linked to higher incidences of heart disease and cancer in humans.Choose the proper hypothesis that a scientist could test.

• A)Eating more meat causes cancer.
• B)Eating a diet of lard makes you fat.
• C)Dietary fat,heart disease,and cancer are all somehow interrelated.
• D)Fat levels above 30% of calories in the diet are correlated with an increase in heart disease.

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Standard Deviation

A measurement of the dispersion or variation of a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean of the set.

Sampling Distribution

The pattern of likelihood for a particular statistic that originates from a random sample.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree of spread or variability among a collection of figures, showing how far the values diverge from the average.

Normal Approximation

A method used in statistics to estimate the distribution of various sample statistics using the normal distribution, particularly when the sample size is large.