Studies of pain thresholds suggest that which group of individuals have a lower threshold for detecting pain?
A) Caucasian women
B) Japanese women
C) Caucasian men
D) Japanese men
Bad question. On page 163 the book says that "Japanese people have a lower pain threshold than Caucasians." and also states "women have a lower threshold for detecting pain than do men." Can't make the case that Caucasian women are the ones with lowest pain thresholds on the basis of this paragraph.
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