Consider this week's reading on Marriage and Family. Do you see yourself in these examples? How have trends in marriage an family life changed over the years to broaden the way we think about these Social Institutions? Discuss what your family experience is with the reading; do the trends match up with what you know? Think about things like divorce, co-habitation, childless by choice. Consider Table 12.1 as well.

Coefficient of Variation and Standard Deviation are two measures of dispersion or spread among the data values. Let's say we have two different sets of data. Explain which of the two mentioned measures can more accurately find out which of these two data sets has more spread or variability in its data values. You can select 5 values for each of the two data sets and practically calculate the standard deviation and coefficient of variation for each data set to clarify your explanation.