Kaylee is interested in studying the relationship between gender (male, female) and religious affiliation (Catholic, Protestant, atheist, Muslim, Hindu, etc). What measure of association should she use?
a. lambda
b. gamma
c. Pearson's r
d. proportion reduction of error
e. chi-square
A
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The civil rights movement as a movement was not the result of one event, but the "inevitable outcome of centuries of mistreatment of black people by white people and their governments."
a. true b. false
Which of the following terms refers to serious, long-term harm to the environment caused by humanity's focus on short-term material affluence?
A. the ecological gap B. the environmental deficit C. the Malthusian horror D. the pollution revolution
The variable DEGREE is best described as:
A team of researchers is interested to know whether educational attainment affects the likelihood of owning or renting a home. They create a cross-tab with DWELOWN (Do you/Does your family) own your (home/apartment), pay rent, or what?”) and DEGREE (respondents’ highest educational degree), using a filter of “YEAR (2010-2014).” Figure 8.1 shows the resulting analysis.
Figure 8.1
a. a dummy variable.
b. a categorical variable.
c. an ordinal variable.
d. an interval-ration level variable.
Conflict theorists criticize __________, which refers to the practice of assigning students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the basis of their test scores, previous grades, or other criteria.
A. mentoring B. structural assimilation C. tracking D. ethnic pluralism