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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? 

Below is a reference section from a study. Which of these citations does not represent acceptable academic literature?  References: Cook, Andrew C. 2021. “State Court Docket Watch: Jefferson v. Dane County, Wisconsin,” The Federalist Society Online. Goenaga, Agustín. 2019. “Defending popular sovereignty: discursive conflict in French and Swedish parliamentary debates on immigrant voting rights (1968-2017),” Citizenship Studies 23(8): 870-891.  Horz, Carlo M. Forthcoming. “Electoral Manipulation in Polarized Societies,” Journal of Politics Ahead of Print. Lebo, Matthew J. and Patrick W. Kraft. 2017. “The general error correction model in practice,” Research and Politics 4(2): 1-13.  

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