Which of the Following Examples Would Be Considered Appropriate Stereotyping

question 66

Multiple Choice

Which of the following examples would be considered appropriate stereotyping?

• A) assuming women to be particularly bad drivers
• B) bracketing working mothers as not being committed fully to their jobs
• C) assuming red-haired people have rather nasty tempers
• D) asking someone from accounting to help with a budgeting problem

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Definitions:

Wage Rate

Remuneration paid by employers to employees for their labor, calculated on an hourly or annual basis, a key factor in employment decisions.

Productivity

The efficiency of production of goods or services, expressed as the ratio of output to inputs used in the production process.

MRP Curve

A graphical representation showing the additional revenue a firm generates by hiring one more unit of labor, based on the concept of marginal revenue product.

Marginal Physical Product

The change in output that results from employing an additional unit of a particular input, holding all other inputs constant.