Harvard Scientist Stephen Jay Gould Survived a Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

Multiple Choice

Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould survived a terminal cancer diagnosis for 20 years. After being told that his type of cancer had a "median mortality rate of eight months after diagnosis," Gould learned that his chance of survival was greatly increased because the frequency distribution of deaths from this disease was _____.

A) normally distributed
B) right-skewed
C) left-skewed
D) associated with a very small standard deviation