A researcher wishes to find out if there is any relationship between gender and types of crime committed, such as felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic violations. The researcher must take into account that these legal categories represent ________ variable
A) manipulated
B) ratio
C) ordinal
D) nominal
Answer: D
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Which of the following is a problem with a professional civil service?
A. There is no way to ensure the hiring of competent individuals knowledgeable about government programs. B. The political parties can exercise undue influence over bureaucrats because of budgetary needs. C. The rules designed to protect career bureaucrats from political retaliation make it difficult to punish them for shirking or incompetence. D. The high levels of turnover hinder the effective implementation of public policies because of a lack of institutional memory concerning best practices.
Americans are beginning to rely more on __________ as their source for news.
A. the Internet B. radio C. local TV news D. newspapers E. cable TV news
Which of the following is not true regarding constitutional protection of the press, as established by the Supreme Court? a. The government cannot prohibit members of the press from critiquing the government, politicians, or policies. b. The government generally cannot regulate content that the press produces
c. The press must allow prior restraint on the basis of national security. d. The press has the freedom to report negative or unflattering information if it is true and published without malice.
Afiya wanted to assess the reliability of students' observations of children's aggressive behavior so she had two students observe 100 behaviors displayed by each of 50 children while engaged in play
After viewing each behavior the students recorded the behavior as being aggressive or nonaggresive. Afiya then computed the percentage of times the two students agreed on their assessment of each behavior. Afiya used what method of assessing reliability? a. interobserver agreement b. Cronbach's alpha c. internal consistency reliability d. test-retest reliability