What is an oral history? Why should a researcher be skeptical while collecting data through the use of oral histories?
What will be an ideal response?
Oral history—data collected through intensive interviews with participants in past events; the stories they tell can be no more reliable than the memories that are recalled; memories of past attitudes can be modified in some way; use of corroborating data from documents or other sources should be used when possible to increase the credibility of descriptions based on oral histories.
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a. deciding which stories are newsworthy b. influencing people through news story interpretation c. stripping a story of its context to avoid the appearance of bias d. hiding a disreputable source in a credible news story
What is a carbon tax?
What will be an ideal response?
In a distribution, a long tail of scores trailing out in one direction is called ____.
What will be an ideal response?
Because standard deviation is not easy to interpret, Dr. Mottle uses another standard measure that expresses scores on a frequency distribution in terms of a number of standard deviations from the mean. What is Dr. Mottle using?
A) Z-score B) X-score C) mean score D) standard deviation score