What Social Pattern Would Drastically Reduce the Human Costs of Natural

question 11

Multiple Choice

What social pattern would drastically reduce the human costs of natural disasters?

• A) intervillage reciprocity
• B) complex kinship ties
• C) an open caste system
• D) egalitarian structure

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Definitions:

Dividend Yields

An economic indicator demonstrating the yearly dividend distribution of a firm in comparison to its share price.

Submartingale

A stochastic process in which the conditional expected value of a future observation, given the past, is at least as great as the present observation, often applied in financial modeling.

Nonrandom Walk

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Predictable Pattern

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