Which of the following is the best sociological definition of income?

a. An individual's yearly salary
b. Wages, tips, and other compensation
c. The amount of money a person or household earns in a given period of time
d. The value of everything a person owns, minus the value of everything he or she owes


c. The amount of money a person or household earns in a given period of time

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Herrnstein and Murray argued that people with low IQ scores are somewhat destined to do all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. be unsuccessful in school b. commit crime c. produce illegitimate children d. be employed

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Descriptions of characteristics of crime and criminals can vary immensely, depending on the sources of information. 2. Statistics regarding crime and delinquency are easily measured. 3. Triangulation assists in providing multiple assessments of the subject matter. 4. Triangulation, which occurs when researchers allow their personal bias to shape their research, is one potential threat to the accuracy of our data on crime. 5. Data have improved recently, but because of variations in quality of data, definitions of crime, recording practices, ideological differences, and differences in measurement, (three things) caution is still warranted.

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A burglar, who was on the premises of a home when the police just happened to be conducting an illegal search and seizure because the home was thought to be the site of drug dealing, would have no standing to contest the seizure of his person and the

evidence he possessed. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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After conducting a t test for independent means, if you ______, you are indicating that those means are significantly different from each other.

a. reject the null hypothesis b. accept the null hypothesis c. do not reject the null hypothesis d. accept the alternative hypothesis

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