If you were conducting research using a cross-section design with retrospective questions about childhood and adolescent years to young people in their twenties, you
a. should yield consistent results.
b. may find this problematic regarding the accuracy of people's answers about what they felt or did years before.
c. will have problems with internal validity.
d. will have problems with internal validity and may find it problematic regarding the accuracy of people's answers about what they felt or did years before.
e. none of these.
d
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A. Companies install a scrubber that would clean chemical pollutants from emissions rather than causing air pollution. B. Companies employ locals as employees to increase employment in the area rather than employing illegal immigrants at wages lower than the minimum wage. C. Companies use explosives and a handful of workers to dig rather than employing hundreds of workers to dig coal from underground. D. Companies use unadultered coal to generate electricity rather than mixing pure coal with charcoal to make the materials cheaper.
A researcher has computed a gamma of –0.45 between marital happiness and number of children. What can she conclude?
a. Families with more children are happier. This is a moderate relationship. b. Children have a strong, positive influence on levels of marital happiness. c. There is a moderate, negative relationship between number of children and marital happiness. d. There is a weak, negative relationship between the variables.
One indirect consequence of effective drug treatment for serious mental disorders is that more mentally ill people are now in jail or prison than in mental hospitals.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
_____ is best known for explaining _____.
a. C. Wright Mills; the sociological imagination b. Herbert Blumer; suicide c. Max Weber; class fractions d. Karl Marx; bureaucracy