Dr. Thomas studies racial attitudes. She has two sets of questions on a questionnaire. One set asks white people about black people, and the other asks black people about white people. Each set of questions is dependent on one’s answer to the question, “What is your race?” Dr. Thomas is using a ____________ to determine which set of questions to ask respondents.

Table 12.2Which of the following is FALSE based upon the table?

Dr. Hightone devised a questionnaire in which she asked, “Do you physically beat your children?” What type of problem might she encounter if she used this question?

Descriptive statistics allows us to describe:

When official definitions or the method of data collections change over time, this causes a problem of ______ in secondary data analysis.

Table 12.3:Annual Family Income and Education*Statistics for Three Neighborhoods*4 yrs college = 16 yrs; masters/law degrees = 18 yrs; Ph.D/MD degrees = 20 yrs.Which neighborhood has the smallest average variation (distribution) among the incomes of families?

Identify the statement that characterizes equivalence reliability.

Table 12.2Which best expresses the bivariate relationship between the amount of education and amount of television watched per week?

Dr. Simpson conducted a content analysis of The New York Times between 1980 and 2000. She first identified relevant articles involving government regulation of business. After finding 2,000 such articles, she systematically sampled articles with a sampling interval of 5. She then coded each sampled article based on the subjective meaning it expressed, as pro- or anti-government regulation, using a 1 to 10 scale (1 = very anti-regulation, 10 = very pro-regulation). In this study, Dr. Simpson used to identify articles as pro- or anti-government regulation.

A survey format that is used to persuade an individual to do something is called a(n)?