Which of these is true regarding the changes in the fragility of the world’s cities between 2000 and 2015?
a. High-income regions saw no increase in fragility.
b. Most of the world became more fragile.
c. Fragility is concentrated in middle income countries.
d. The majority of the world’s nations have improved their levels of fragility.
b. Most of the world became more fragile.
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Harry believes that men are more likely than women to pass religious values to their children. However, Steven disagrees and argues that religious values are most often passed down by women
Which of the following statements, if true, is likely to weaken Harry's argument? A) Fathers with a religious affiliation are more likely to spend time with their children than fathers with no religious affiliation. B) Men are expected by the society to be more pious and spiritual than women. C) Men are proactivelyinvolved in public life that demands more of their time and energy than their families. D) Research indicates that over 85 percent of men across 145 countries believe that religion is an important part of their lives.
In the U.S. during the Jim Crow era (1880-1967) people legally classified as black chose to pass as white to increase chances of upward mobility. The choice to pass was dependent on the person possessing physical characteristics associated with white. In this sense the choice depended on
a. context. b. chance. c. achieved characteristics. d. family wishes.
A threat to internal validity due to something that occurs and affects the dependent variable during an experiment, but which is unplanned and outside the control of the experimenter is known as
a. selection bias. b. history. c. maturation. d. testing effect. e. matching.
In the context of pregnancy,__________refers to the moment when a woman can feel the fetus inside her
A) quickening B) contraction C) crowning D) palpation