Wierzbicka States That There Is Considerable Diversity in the Way

question 27

Multiple Choice

Wierzbicka states that there is considerable diversity in the way in which different cultures and societies think about feelings, but she is certain that there are common, even universal emotions. When she says that the problem is "how to sort out the culture-specific from the universal", which principle of scientific thinking would you invoke in order to evaluate current or future research on universals?

• A)Replicability
• B)Correlation versus causality
• C)Occam's Razor
• D)Ruling out rival hypotheses

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Definitions:

Sum of Squares

A statistical measure used to describe the dispersion of data points. It calculates the sum of the squared differences from the mean.

Simple Linear Regression

A technique in statistics that estimates the association between an independent variable and a dependent variable using a straight line.

Negatively Related

A term describing the relationship between two variables where an increase in one variable is associated with a decrease in the other.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that calculates the strength of the relationship between two variables and their direction (positive or negative).