According to research, which of the following statements is true of the impact of social ties on a person’s health?
A) Married people have a shorter life span compared to single people.
B) Social isolation has a lower mortality rate than smoking cigarettes.
C) People who interact often with family members live longer than whose who don't.
D) People with narrow social relationships live longer than those with diverse social networks.
Ans: C) People who interact often with family members live longer than whose who don't.
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What will be an ideal response?
Women today tend to be employed most often in
a. law and politics. b. jobs that work with objects. c. the service sector and helping professions. d. engineering.
The special table that researchers consult after calculating the statistics for their study is
based on the a. special properties of the mean and standard deviation. b. results of other research in related areas. c. results of other research on the same topic. d. likelihood of obtaining a significant difference by chance. e. sum of results from all research on the same topic.
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A) have younger friends. B) feel hostility and distress. C) be dissatisfied with his body. D) have a disadvantage in sports.