"Empirical" information consists of:

a. common sense
b. personal knowledge accumulated through years of experience
c. carefully collected, unbiased data
d. the carefully considered opinions of social observers


C

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a. 1.33 standard deviations below the mean. b. 1.33 percent below the mean. c. 1.33 percentile ranks below the mean. d. 1.33 z scores below the standard deviation.

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Sociologist Kingsley Davis asserted that prostitution exists because

a) the economic system demands it. b) genders are separate and unequal. c) the moral system encourages it. d) the police try to suppress it.

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Which of the following is NOT an assumption required for a test of hypothesis with a single sample mean?

a. a representative sample b. sample size (N) larger than 1000 c. normal sampling distribution d. interval-ratio level of measurement

Sociology

Both Catholics in Ireland and blacks in the United States:

a. are an easily identifiable minority. b. hold visible minority status. c. experience institutional discrimination. d. have religious differences from that of the majority group.

Sociology