Economist Paul Hertz followed about 9,000 children into adulthood to calculate odds of changing or maintaining economic status. Which of the following statements describe his findings?
a. The chances of moving from lowest-income category to the highest are quite high.
b. The chances of remaining in the highest income category (top 20 percent) are relatively low.
c. Children classified as black have an advantage over children classified as white.
d. Children from high income households receive more education and are healthier as adults than lower income counterparts.
d
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A system of marriage that unites one woman with two or more men is called
a. polygyny. b. polygamy. c. polyandry. d. monogamy.
Having lived through the Great Depression, Jerome’s father valued economic self-sufficiency to the point that he
a. researched credit cards to find the best rewards. b. always paid cash, even for his house. c. used credit cards to build up a credit record. d. wanted to spend his life savings before he died.
A professor at your university has hired you as a research assistant to help with her project on the current state of residential segregation, particularly between white and black populations, in a nearby major city. As your first task, she asks you to interpret the results of statistical analysis of the index of dissimilarity in various neighborhoods in the city. The first neighborhood you are
writing about has a predominantly white population with a dissimilarity index of 41. How would you interpret this? A) There is a 41 percent chance that this neighborhood will remain racially segregated over the course of the next 10 years. B) To have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there, 41 percent of white or black residents would need to move. C) A total of 41 whites would have to move out of this neighborhood to have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there. D) A total of 41 blacks would have move into this neighborhood to have a more even distribution of whites and blacks there.
Widely held beliefs are most often true, which is why they are so widely believed
Indicate whether the statement is true or false