By adding comparison groups in a study of the effects of child seat belt legislation in California, Guerin and MacKinnon (1985) were able to
A) perform more high-powered statistical procedures.
B) attenuate the reliability of their observations.
C) study the effects of other types of legislation on their target group.
D) increase confidence in their conclusions.
Answer: D
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A) those who tend to vote are unrepresentative of the American public. B) it lowers America's international image. C) of the incumbency advantage. D) of social connectedness. E) minorities can never gain representation.
In a grounded theory explanation a researcher builds the explanation by
A) doing a background check. B) making comparisons. C) checking on the internet. D) finding a common element and ruling it out.
Fiscal policy suffers from all of the following limitations except
a. a deflationary bias b. the crowding out effect c. recognition, administrative, and operation timing lags d. irreversibility of changes in government spending or taxes
List the phases of the norms life cycle in order.
What will be an ideal response?