An Audience of 20-Year-Olds Finds a Series of Off-Color Jokes

question 164

Multiple Choice

An audience of 20-year-olds finds a series of off-color jokes highly amusing. A group of 50-year-olds finds the same jokes highly offensive. It is concluded that, as people age, their senses of humor become more rigid and narrow. The major difficulty in drawing conclusions of this sort is that ________.

• A) longitudinal studies cannot distinguish between age differences and generational differences
• B) cross-sectional studies cannot distinguish between age differences and generational differences
• C) longitudinal studies cannot distinguish between age differences and differences in the time at which measurements are taken
• D) cross-sectional studies cannot distinguish between age differences and differences in the time at which measurements are taken

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Definitions:

Task Performance

The act of executing and completing specific duties or objectives as part of one's role or job responsibilities.

Timely Feedback

Providing constructive responses or evaluations shortly after an action, task, or event to encourage learning and improvement.

Intuitors

Individuals who prefer to rely on intuition and abstract thinking rather than factual information and practical details.

Empirical Data

is information obtained through observation or experimentation, used as a basis for forming conclusions or making decisions.