Define civil rights. How do they differ from civil liberties? How are they best protected? Is it possible for all people to enjoy civil rights equally, or do the civil rights of some groups necessarily infringe on the civil rights of others? Can persons from groups that have historically enjoyed positions of privilege be said to possess civil rights?
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Several decades ago political scientists tended to overlook __________
A) revolutions B) dictatorships C) government legitimacy D) violence and upheaval
Which topic is more likely than the others to be subject to a screening procedure in a public opinion poll?
a. crime prevention b. illegal drug use c. the federal budget d. health care
Factors contributing to reliability include all of the following EXCEPT
A) the precision and clarity of the operational definition of the construct. B) the care and precision with which we carry out the measures and follow procedures of the operational definition. C) the attention we pay to making sure we have a large number of participants. D) the number of independent observations on which to base the score.
Dr. Haynes finds that in her laboratory, bacterium X can be killed with antibiotic Y. However, Dr. Swensson does not observe this same result in her laboratory. What is the most plausible explanation for why this happened?
a. Dr. Haynes made up the results to survive in a publish-or-perish academic setting. b. The results of biomedical experiments are often random, so this is not unusual. c. Dr. Swensson made mistakes analyzing the data. d. Dr. Swensson did not use the exact same procedure as Dr. Haynes.