Which of the following statements about arranged marriages in India is NOT true?
A) Arranged marriages are closely aligned with the patrilineal ideals of society.
B) Most people still prefer arranged marriage.
C) Kin group interests have a more significant role in mate selection than individual desires.
D) Globalization has not had much of an impact.
E) Many women now save for their own dowries.
D
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A. the Upper Paleolithic. B. the fourth millennium B.C. C. the ninth millennium B.C. D. 1500 B.C.
If Excel estimated the 95 percent confidence interval for a slope coefficient for the price b^ to run from -2.73 to -1.67, which of the following is true?
A) You are 95 percent confident that the true slope coefficient is greater than -2.73. B) You are 95 percent confident that the true slope coefficient is greater than -1.67. C) You are 95 percent confident that the true slope coefficient falls within the range -2.73 to -1.67. D) You are 99 percent confident that the true slope coefficient falls within the range -2.73 to -1.67.
Using palynological data, Haynes and Mehringer concluded that the climate at the Lehner Clovis site in southeastern Arizona 11,000 years ago was
a. only slightly wetter and cooler than today, followed by a rapid shift toward drier conditions. b. only slightly drier and warmer than today, followed by a rapid shift toward wetter conditions. c. much drier and warmer than today; only a large shift in temperature and precipitation would have caused such a different environment at the site. d. much wetter and cooler than today; only a large shift in temperature and precipitation would have caused such a different environment at the site. e. much drier and colder than today; only slight shifts in temperature and precipitation would have cause a stationary environment at the site.
In an article in the British science journal Nature, Dart argued that Taung was a hominin, based on __________
a. its generalized teeth b. the broad and short iliac blade of the pelvis c. the position of the foramen magnum d. the funnel-shaped thorax