Why is the normal curve so common in nature?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers to part 1 may vary (e.g., intelligence, mood, memory ability). The normal curve is common because any particular score is the result of the random combination of many effects, some of which make a score larger and some of which make a score smaller. On average these effects balance out to produce scores near the middle, with relatively few scores at each extreme because it is unlikely for most of the increasing or decreasing effects to come out in the same direction.
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Elkins claimed all of the following about the experience of Black slaves, except
A) Slavery was oppressive. B) Slaves had a life-albeit at a subsistence level. C) Slavery reduced Blacks to a subhuman condition. D) Slave conditions generated extreme subservience and passivity.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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A. charismatic authority B. rational-legal authority C. traditional authority D. democratic authority