General Sani Abacha was Nigeria's most autocratic military ruler to date. The nature of his rule led to ________
A. a massive influx of oil revenues to the central government
B. an astonishing tripling of Nigeria's capital stock in only eight years
C. intense domestic and political pressure for a genuine transition to democratic
politics
D. increase in redistributive taxation and welfare spending
E. widespread participation and interparty contestation in free and fair elections to
elect the next government
C
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Politics occurs whenever a solution to a problem requires cooperation even when that cooperation is which of the following?
A. achieved through force alone B. costly or difficult C. irrelevant to the success of the course of action D. already what everyone agrees on
The quality of an experiment is judged by its internal validity. When we say that an experiment is internally valid, it means that
a. our operational definitions of the dependent and independent variables accurately capture the concepts those variables are meant to represent. b. within the context of the experiment, each time we take a measure of the dependent variable from a participant, we get roughly the same result. c. our operational definitions of variables are valid, but only within the context of that one experiment. d. we can confidently state that any observed changes in the dependent variable result from manipulations of the independent variable(s) and nothing else.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. When both variables are categorical, the t-test should be used for hypothesis testing. 2. The term parametric statistics refers to tests that make assumptions about the distribution of data. 3. Recoding continuous variables as categorical variables is discouraged because it results in a loss of information. 4. The t-test has four test assumptions. 5. The critical values of the t-test are provided by Student’s t-test distribution.
If British citizens believe their government's rule is rightful, they believe the government __________
a. has authority b. is legitimate c. is sovereign d. is powerful