Lyle's research on recidivism contains a variable that measures the number of offenses an individual was charged with prior to being paroled. This count of offenses is a(n):
a. continuous variable.
b. discrete variable.
c. dichotomous variable.
d. categorical variable.
e. nominal variable.
B
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a. Civil Rights Movement b. Riff-Raff theory c. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People d. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
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A) a culture characterized by desire for consumer goods B) the physical objects and space people use to define their culture and what they use to make them C) subculture based around fashionable clothing D) the ideas, values, and beliefs that people develop and share
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A. data-analyzing B. advocacy-informing C. data-gathering D. theory-informing
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a. highly professional schools b. bureaucratic schools c. inequality in schooling d. too little funding for public schools