Ethical Dilemmas Are Puzzling Moral Problems in Which a Person

question 9

Multiple Choice

Ethical dilemmas are puzzling moral problems in which a person, group, or community can envision morally justified reasons for both taking and not taking a certain course of action. An example of an ethical dilemma is:

• A) Whether or not to set up a community health center in a rural area
• B) Allocating resources in a natural disaster
• C) Deciding to withdraw care on a hospice patient
• D) Applying the principles of Florence Nightingale in Bangladesh

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a dataset, indicating how far each data point lies from the mean.

Variability

Refers to the extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or data set diverge from the average value.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set, showing the spread or dispersion of the data points.

Subtract

To subtract means to take away one quantity from another, resulting in the difference between the two values.