To investigate the impact of population density on crime, a researcher compared average crime rates in low and high density neighborhoods. To control for poverty, which is related to both density and crime, he further stratified the data into low and high poverty neighborhoods. Instead of using this method of stratification, multiple regression analysis is often preferable because
a. It can accommodate more than one or two control variables
b. It is not limited to categorical variables
c. A fuller range of values of both the independent and control variables can be taken into account
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The Dodd-Frank Act passed in:
A. 2008 B. 2009 C. 2010 D. 2011
Bureaucrats are workers who
a. complete paperwork for the federal government. b. staff government organizations. c. conduct investigations of corporate fraud. d. manage private sector companies. e. alert the government to fraud and waste.
The feminist school of thought that is skeptical of all claims to objective truth is
a. postmodernism. b. standpoint theory. c. feminist liberalism. d. empiricism.