When Compared to Noncohabiting Couples, Couples Who Cohabit Before Marriage

question 120

Multiple Choice

When compared to noncohabiting couples, couples who cohabit before marriage tend to have:

• A) more children.
• B) higher marital commitment.
• C) higher divorce rates.
• D) fewer arguments.

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Definitions:

Skewed

A description of a distribution that is not symmetrical, typically with a longer tail on one side of the peak than the other.

Outliers

In statistics, outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially indicating experimental error or variability.

IQR

The Interquartile Range, a measure of statistical dispersion being the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles.

Shape

In statistics, the geometric configuration of a data distribution, which can be described by terms like symmetrical, skewed, or bimodal.