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The implied or suggested meaning of a word is known as the: 

Cultures which value fluid, overlapping social gender roles in which both sexes are expected to be modest, tender, and concerned with an ecological quality environment follow a Femininity Value Pattern. 

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 distinct phases of culture shock adjustment described by the U Curve adjustment model?

The U Curve adjustment model describes 3 distinct phases of culture shock adjustment. 

Intercultural communication researchers use culture-level value tendencies to describe average patterns of a culture. 

Cultural Value Orientations are based on universal questions asked consciously or unconsciously surrounding meaning, destiny, time, and space. 

According to Friedman and Nissenbaum, which of the following best describes pre-existing bias in computer systems?

A medical diagnostic tool performs accurately on average across all patients, but when researchers analyze outcomes by subgroup, they find it misdiagnoses a specific ethnic group at a significantly higher rate. The tool was never tested on subgroup data before deployment. According to Friedman and Nissenbaum, this is best described as:

Bender et al. argue that toxicity classifiers used to “clean” training data can themselves introduce bias. Which of the following best explains why?

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