The more industrialized a society becomes, the less formal its social institutions tend to be
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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The measures in this chapter are known as measures of central tendency because they tend to
a. fall toward the center of a distribution, where most scores are located. b. be central to our understanding of statistics. c. be located at the midpoint of a class interval. d. all of the above.
According to the text, the Federal Drug Administration tests new drugs based on the assumption that the
a. sample has not been selected according to EPSEM b. null hypothesis ("the drug is not effective") is true c. level of measurement is less than ordinal d. sample is neither biased nor efficient
Which of the following is a similarity between the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the U.S. Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)?
A) ?Both interview people about being crime victims. B) ?Both include offenses such as corporate crime, kidnapping, and Internet crimes. C) ?Both include data of reported and unreported crime. D) ?Both are not affected by police discretion in deciding whether to arrest an offender. E) ?Both provide only estimates of U.S. crime and not the actual figures.
The sociological imagination draws attention to the fact that __________.
A. social problems are often hidden from the rest of society B. defining social problems is usually based on whether the issue is seen as illegal or immoral C. religious groups no longer have the power they did in the last century D. seemingly private issues are often public ones