Harvard Scientist Stephen Jay Gould Survived a Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

question 109

Multiple Choice

Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould survived a terminal cancer diagnosis for 20 years. After being told that his type of cancer had a "median mortality rate of eight months after diagnosis," Gould learned that his chance of survival was greatly increased because the frequency distribution of deaths from this disease was _____.

• A) normally distributed
• B) right-skewed
• C) left-skewed
• D) associated with a very small standard deviation

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Definitions:

Steal

The act of taking someone else's property without permission or legal right.

Superego

In Freudian psychoanalysis, a part of the personality that acts as a moral center, guiding behavior in accordance with learned social norms.

Conscience

Part of The Superego That Produces Guilt, depending on how acceptable behavior is.

Freud's Personality Theory

A theory proposed by Sigmund Freud that suggests personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego.