What Is "Brain Drain

question 65

Multiple Choice

What is "brain drain"?

• A)the tendency for highly educated workers in high-income countries to move to low-income countries to volunteer their services
• B)increased recruiting efforts that attempt to raise the average level of education in developed nations
• C)foreign direct investment that flows from a developed country to a developing country
• D)the loss of highly educated people from a low-income country as they move to higher-income opportunities in foreign countries

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Definitions:

Numerical Characteristics

Quantitative attributes or measurements that describe and summarize data.

Sample

A selected subset of individuals or items from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

Sampling Error

The error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population, leading to potential differences between the sample statistic and population parameter.

Population Mean

The average of all the data points in a population.