Barbour and Wright maintain that push polls are "pseudo-polls" because they ______.
A. are always run without a benchmark poll to support them
B. spread campaign misinformation rather than determine the state of public opinion
C. cannot reduce their margin of error to acceptable standards
D. are more accurately called survey experiments than polls
Answer: B. spread campaign misinformation rather than determine the state of public opinion
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a. coalitions b. focus groups c. sects d. clans
Disruptive behavior is an example of a possible
A) independent variable. B) dependent variable. C) stimulus variable. D) All of the above
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a. more countries experienced an increase in freedom than those that experienced a decrease in freedom. b. more countries experienced a decrease in freedom than those that experienced an increase in freedom. c. no country experienced a decrease in freedom. d. no country experienced an increase in freedom.
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