Which of the following statements is a definition of sampling error?
a) the difference in characteristics between the sample and the population sampled from
b) the difference in amount of people between the sample and the population sampled from
c) greatest when using simple random sampling than other sampling types
d) larger when you have a larger sample
a
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Women are more likely than men to identify themselves as members of which political party?
a. Democratic Party b. Republican Party c. Libertarian Party d. Reform Party
In 1972, the Burger Court ruled that capital punishment is not cruel and unusual when ____________
a. imposed for rape crimes b. the appeals process is complete c. state legislatures approve it d. administered fairly
Which of the following statements accurately describes war since 1945?
a. The major powers have increasingly used precise smart weapons to battle each other in conventional wars. b. Smart weapons have increased the number of battle deaths sharply and decreased the number of civilian deaths. c. The major powers have avoided large-scale conflict because of the deadly power of nuclear weapons. d. The world has known several decades of peace because of the deadly power of nuclear weapons.
The concept of "levels of analysis" deals with
A. the political system having three branches of government: legislative, judicial, and executive. B. types of observations and measurements we use and the types of conclusions that we can draw from those observations and measurements. C. an explicitly political entity, created and alterable by men and women, based upon accepted boundaries. D. the practice of assuming that because political institutions or relationships work one way in stable Western democracies they must work the same way in all political systems.