An epidemiologist studying the effects of air pollution on the development of respiratory diseases reported the percentage of a population experiencing a respiratory disease over the past five years. What term did he use to describe this statistic?
a) frequency
b) incidence
c) prevalence
d) occurrence
C
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The old saying that “the nail that stands up gets pounded down” most likely developed in a ____ culture.?
a. ?democratic b. ?individualist c. ?collectivist d. ?traditional
The values of rho are
a. between -1 and +1. b. unrestricted. c. between 0 and +1. d. any positive number.
The self-serving bias is the tendency to
a. credit our successes to internal, dispositional factors and our failures to external, situational influences. b. describe our successes in greater detail than our failures. c. repeat ourselves when we think we're right. d. take care of our own needs first, and worry about others later.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, American lawyers became lawyers by
A. attending college for one year. B. attending college for two years. C. being an apprentice. D. declaring themselves to be one.