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Denise is critiquing an article for her research methods course. In the article, the researchers state that unethical and malicious lending practices caused the market collapse in 2008. In turn, the authors of the article make the argument that housing markets are the only phenomena large enough to cause a market collapse in the an advanced democracy.  Denise’s first reaction to the article is: “But the EU doesn’t have standard home-lending processes; all EU countries have different lending and property laws. Yet, the world witnessed  an EU market crash that impacted all advanced democracies in the EU.”  Denise’s critique is an example of ________________________. 

Hypothesis: “Countries with coalition governments are more likely than countries with majoritarian governments to have public policy favorable to the mass public.”  In this hypothesis, the agent is __________________ . 

Dartanian is tasked with creating a presentation on his most recent research. While his research looks at the relationships between variables, he wants to begin by showing the audience what each variable looks like. Here, he will be looking at univariate statistics. These most likely include: 

Which of these statements is a definitively true regarding correlation? 

Which of these answers provide a correct order of operations for the scientific method?

What is inference and what is its relationship to theory? 

What does a negative correlation indicate? 

When conducting a search on google scholar for appropriate literature, which aspect of the literature do you need to confirm? 

Correctly done, a researcher should be trying to “prove”…? 

Hypothesis: “Republican respondents will be more likely than Democratic respondents to indicate that the U.S. military should intervene in combat zones.” What is the dependent variable?