Gender Stereotypes

question 34

Multiple Choice

Gender stereotypes

• A) are limiting because people use them to make assumptions about individuals based on their gender that may not be true.
• B) help people make more accurate inferences about people they don't know very well.
• C) are based on underlying biological sex differences.
• D) are similar in all parts of the world.

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Definitions:

Probability

Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Hypergeometric Probability

A probability distribution used for calculating the odds of drawing a specific number of successes in a sample without replacement from a finite population.

Discrete Probability Distributions

Probability distributions that delineate the probabilities of outcomes for discrete random variables.

Hypergeometric Random Variable

A discrete random variable that represents the count of successful outcomes in a series of selections from a limited population where each selection is not returned to the pool.