When a Minority Group Is Defined as a Race and Then

question 40

Multiple Choice

When a minority group is defined as a race and then negative characteristics are attributed to that group, it is called:

• A) ethnocentric
• B) racialism
• C) racicsm
• D) racial profiling

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Definitions:

Systolic blood pressure

The pressure in the arteries when the heart beats and fills them with blood.

Population mean

The average of a set of characteristics or values for the entire population.

Confidence interval estimate

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, given a specified level of confidence.

Standard deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values in a data set are.