The belief that the variation in an independent variable will be followed by variation in the dependent variable, when all other things are equal, is known as ______.

A. a nomothetic explanation
B. an individualist fallacy
C. an ecological fallacy
D. a historicist explanation


B. an individualist fallacy

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A) stratified random sampling. B) nonrandom sampling. C) environmental sampling. D) ad hoc sampling.

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The fear that communism would spread from one Southeast Asian state to the next came to be known as

a. the butterfly effect. b. the domino theory. c. the Red Menace. d. communist flight. e. capitalist flight.

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Of the following list of ideologies, Americans are most likely to identify with

(A) Communism (B) Conservatism (C) Totalitarianism (D) Libertarianism (E) Authoritarianism

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