Closed Systems Are Those Social Systems Where People Are Ranked

question 50

Multiple Choice

Closed systems are those social systems where people are ranked according to _________ characteristics such as ______________.

• A)achieved,ethnicity and gender
• B)achieved,good work ethic
• C)ascribed,ethnicity and gender
• D)ascribed,good work ethic

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Definitions:

Joint Probability

The chance that two or more incidents will happen concurrently.

Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

E(XY)

The anticipated outcome of multiplying two stochastic variables together, showing how their variances are interconnected.

COV(X,Y)

A measure of the degree to which two variables X and Y move together, indicating the strength and direction of their linear relationship.