Hochschild's research, reported in her book, The Time Bind, documents the tension people experience between work and family. She found that people spend long hours at work for three reasons, including all of the following EXCEPT:

a. they need the money.
b. economic insecurity and the fear of being downsized.
c. they like work and find it rewarding, sometimes more rewarding than their families.
d. the concept of competition at work and the need for "face time" there.


d

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a. but will not necessarily have narrower confidence intervals. b. and will always produce narrower confidence intervals. c. and will always produce wider confidence intervals. d. but will produce more precise intervals if the confidence level is low.

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a. having a criminal record and getting a call back has no statistical correlation. b. having a criminal record will make it twice as likely that the candidate will get a call back (as compared to someone without a criminal record). c. having a criminal record will make it half as likely that the candidate will get a call back (as compared to someone without a criminal record). d. having a criminal record assures the candidate that he will not get a call back at all.

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

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