Which of the following statements is an example of selective mortality?
A)Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
B)Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
C)Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of "fluid" intelligence.
D)In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.

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Selective mortality refers to the idea that certain individuals are more likely to drop out of a study or die before follow-up data is collected, which can bias the results. Choice D reflects this concept, as the elderly subjects who died before the follow-up data was collected are not representative of the entire population of older adults. The other choices do not directly relate to selective mortality.

Which of the Following Statements Is an Example of Selective