The 40-hour work week is considered the standard in American society today. Imagine you wish to use data from the 2010 General Social Survey to determine whether the mean number of hours worked per week by men in the sample differs from the 40-hour standard. What test statistic should you compute and why?
What will be an ideal response?
The t statistic because the population variance/standard deviation is unknown.
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A) corporation B) transnational corporation C) corporate demographic D) colony
Utilizing Erving Goffman's dramaturgical approach, Alfred McClung Lee has suggested that terrorism
A. is similar to the theater, in that certain scenes are played out in a predictable fashion. B. always has a religious basis. C. always pits the powerful against the have-nots and is similar to the theater, in that certain scenes are played out in a predictable fashion. D. always pits the powerful against the have-nots.
For the Indian workers employed by companies such as Nasscom, which of the following descriptions best describes them?
a. They are people with low education levels, working jobs that they like, with wages far beyond what they could be making otherwise. b. They are people who see their work as highly demanding, pressurized, stressful, and burn-out frequently from these jobs. c. They are mostly people who have college educations, come from upper-class families in India, and receive a high degree of job satisfaction. d. They are people with no resources, lowly paid, and working in sweat shops for pennies an hour.
Although __________ explain(s) some residential segregation, the overriding cause appears to be __________
a. economics; racial discrimination b. racial discrimination; economics c. economics; gendered differences d. racial discrimination; personal choices