Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla conducted structured interviews of convicted rapists who were in prison. They divided the interviews equally between themselves, utilizing the same questions and methods
The primary objective for dividing the group of interviews equally was to ________.
A) assure representativeness of the sample
B) improve rapport with the respondents
C) reduce the chance of interviewer bias
D) minimize the effects of spuriousness
C
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29. In the early 1900s, you are a teacher in a classroom that is mostly made up of immigrants. You give a test to students to measure their current skill level. The students with the highest scores are most likely from which country?
a. Italy b. Poland c. Russia d. Norway
Which kind of rape occurs most often?
a. Stranger rape b. Rape by a family member, friend, or acquaintance c. Rape involving a weapon d. Rape that also includes robbery
The death of a child symbolically threatens the family’s hope for a future
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following best describes a field audit?
A. observing racial interactions, between strangers, in public situations B. sending two otherwise similar, but racially different, subjects into similar situations C. sending people of the same race, but with significant differences in education or income, into similar situations D. observing how public institutions, such as banks, treat people of different races and ethnicities