According to the Text, the Most Accurate Answer to the Question

question 153

Multiple Choice

According to the text, the most accurate answer to the question, "What causes a person to develop a same-sex orientation?" is:

• A) exposure to male hormones during the prenatal period
• B) overly harsh punishment during childhood
• C) a set of genes that produce this behavior
• D) we don't know

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average of a set of values in the entire population.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from a sample, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean of the sample.

Z Value

A Z value is a statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean.

Confidence Level

A statistical measure expressed as a percentage that indicates the probability that a given interval contains the true parameter or result.