With Regard to Genetic Testing, Researchers in Your Text Recommend

question 41

Multiple Choice

With regard to genetic testing, researchers in your text recommend that:

• A)it should be a collective decision: one's partner and parents should be consulted
• B)it should be a private decision and efforts to intrude on one's privacy should be rebuffed
• C)only a genetic specialist should be consulted to recommend genetic testing
• D)genetic testing might best be avoided, since it only invites unnecessary worry

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Definitions:

Systematic Risk

The risk inherent to the entire market or market segment, also known as market risk, which cannot be eliminated through diversification.

Characteristic Line

A line generated in a graphical representation of the returns on a security versus the returns on the market, used to assess risk.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the dispersion between numbers in a data set, measuring how far each number in the set is from the mean.