Convicted murderer Michael Morton was exonerated from a life sentence after he was proved innocent because of __________.
A. DNA test results and the discovery that prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence from his defense lawyers
B. sloppy policework that contaminated relevant evidence
C. the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that his sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment
D. a prosecution witness's improper argument that he posed a future danger to society because of his race
Answer: A
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A) from the participants in the study to the larger population. B) of the study over time. C) from one study to another. D) from the conditions of the study to other conditions (i.e., generalization to other settings).
The __________, a portion of which has been rendered unconstitutional, defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman and declared that states were under no obligation to recognize same-sex marriages in other states
a. Marriage Security Act b. Defense of Marriage Act c. Defense of Tradition Act d. Traditional Marriage Security Act
Most Americans participate in politics through passive, symbolic, or ritualistic ways
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A regression of the number of cases of a particular disease per 1000 people based on the number of people vaccinated against it as children (per 1000) is performed on data collected from 34 cities. The results are summarized below:
Intercept .914
Slope -.001
a. Fill in the blanks of the ANOVA table.
b. What is the predicted number of cases per 1000 population in a city where the vaccination rate is 102 out of 1000?
c. In words, what is the meaning of the coefficient -.001? What does this mean, and
how can it be interpreted in the context of the population being studied?
d. What is the value of the correlation coefficient?
e. What is the standard deviation of the residuals?