A survey administered to a sample drawn from a local community finds that a person's political party affiliation is related to whether or not they favor an increase in local sales tax (the headline of a newspaper story based on this poll reads:
"Republicans support proposed tax increase"). This is an example of the use of
a. univariate descriptive statistics.
b. inferential statistics.
c. multivariate descriptive statistics.
d. reductionist statistics.
ANSWER: b
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Walter Miller's view of delinquency is that delinquent boys are __________
a. responding to the focal concerns of lower-class life b. members of one or another of three basic lower-class subcultures c. members of a delinquent subculture because they aspire to, but cannot reach, middle-class standards d. delinquent because they have been associating with delinquent peer groups e. adopting deviant means to reach socially approved goals
Briefly describe the relationship between joking and the fag discourse.
What will be an ideal response?
According to researchers, teenagers who have sex are a. likely to delay using contraceptives until several months after they become sexually active
b. likely to not use condoms. c. likely to marry when they become pregnant. d. less likely to use the birth control pill than other forms of contraception.
Given what you have learned about the relationship between nutrition and cognitive functioning over time, what is one piece of advice you could give others?
a. The research on the relationship between nutrition and cognitive functioning is unclear. b. Maintaining good levels of certain nutrients in blood plasma can reduce structural changes in the brain and cognitive declines. c. The nutrients important for women's cognitive functioning are different from those required by men. d. After age 75, nutrition is not an important factor in cognitive functioning.