Data snooping is

A) referring to data or research that has not been published.
B) changing the hypothesis of a study after the data have been collected and analyzed.
C) used most often in large scale, lower-constraint research when clues to potential relationships between variables may be buried in the mass of data.
D) used to control confounding variables in experimental research.


Answer: C

Political Science

You might also like to view...

The __________ Amendment in 1913 took the choice of senators from the state legislatures and gave it to the people

A) Eleventh B) Thirteenth C) Seventeenth D) Twenty-First E) Twenty-Second

Political Science

In the year 2012, in Arizona v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed the states’ rights to rule on immigration.

A. True B. False

Political Science

The process whereby one becomes aware of politics, learns political facts, and forms political values is called

A) political indoctrination. B) ideological awakening. C) political ideology. D) political socialization. E) systems building.

Political Science

What is one impact of the media's tendency to give foreign events episodic coverage?

a. Genocides and other atrocities are discovered earlier and covered extensively. b. The public as a whole has grown more isolationist regarding foreign policy. c. The public finds it difficult to form opinions about U.S. foreign policy. d. The public has developed an insatiable appetite for foreign policy news.

Political Science