Professor Tilton measured the variable "feelings toward drafting women" with the categories strongly agree, agree, indifferent, disagree, and strongly disagree. Professor Tilton was using the _____ level of measurement
a. nominal
b. interval
c. ratio
d. ordinal
e. not enough information to decide
d
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following is false about tracking?
a. Placement in tracks is influenced by race, Hispanic origin, and especially class b. Even when test scores are the same as middle-class students, lower-socioeconomic status students are placed in lower tracks c. Most students in low tracks move out of them within a year or two d. Students in low tracks are often denied the opportunities to take the courses they need to enter and succeed in college
Juanita decided to study the differences among students who choose different majors. Everyone in her study, however, has chosen sociology as a major. Which one of the following can be said about her concept of choice of major?
a. She needs to study more people. b. She can go ahead and do her study relating the two variables. c. She really has only one concept. d. One of her variables isn't really a variable because it has only one attribute. e. It is not a major.
Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is
a. built into culture itself. b. a trait of certain individuals. c. found among poor and disadvantaged people. d. found among most people in all societies.