A study of traffic safety shows a correlation of 0.57 between average speed of traffic and number of fatal accidents for a particular stretch of highway. This means that
a. drivers should speed up to get through this area as quickly as possible.
b. as speed increases, fatalities decrease.
c. fatalities tend to increase as average speed increases.
d. every 1 mile per hour increase in average speed increases the number of traffic fatalities by .57.
ANSWER: c
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(a) Families of color have fewer resources in old age due to lower-paying jobs during their lifetime, less employment, and fewer health insurance and Social Security benefits. (b) Minority groups die earlier from diseases linked to poverty. (c) More and more elderly are abandoned by their families and are unable to care for themselves. (d) Many minority elderly living in poverty die from malnutrition.
Queer theorists argue that sexual identities are unstable and arbitrary.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following statements about hate crimes are true
What will be an ideal response?
Identity politics
a. Went out of favor in the 1960s because of civil rights movements b. Celebrates and reinforces distinctiveness of racial, ethnic, cultural or other groups c. Reinforces the importance of the group over the individual d. Is more common in poorer countries and communities