Why should a researcher not interpret a correlation that is not statistically significant?

a. it is based on too few participants
b. the correlation in the population is likely to be zero
c. it is not a perfect correlation
d. correlation does not imply causality
e. the data are likely to contain outliers


B

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a. governing philosophy supporting the United Kingdom's participation in the European Union. b. belief that ordinary citizens should take control over their lives and shift the balance of power downward from the state to communities and individual citizens. c. support for trade unionism in the United Kingdom. d. consensus that drove politics in the postwar period and presupposed that the state should take on more responsibility for economic governance and social welfare provisions. e. consensus that the British government should take control of its defense industries in order to successfully wage war during war time conditions.

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Those resources that can be sustained indefinitely, as long as the state of consumption does not exceed the natural rate of replacement, are known as

a. renewable resources. b. cornucopian deposits. c. positive externalities. d. absolute gains.

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On September 11, 2001, the terrorist organization ______ hijacked four American commercial aircraft and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and, in a struggle with the passengers on the plane, into a field in Pennsylvania.

a. ISIS b. al-Qaeda c. ISIL d. Black Hand

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The federal rule that expanded regulations of American political news coverage beyond just the provision of time for candidates to the content of political news coverage itself is called the ______.

a. equal time rule b. equal access rule c. fairness doctrine d. broadcast equity doctrine

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