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The Young Children’s Charity would like to provide an accurate estimate of how much it costs to raise a child between the ages of 2 and 12 for its fund-raising campaign. They contracted with you to find out how much households spent on raising a child in 1996. They gave you a list all 400,000 residential telephone customers in the area they will operate the campaign. You sampled every 400th address on the list. The Charity will have a survey company contact each household sampled and ask whether or not there is a child between 2 and 12 years of age living in the household. If there is, they will ask other questions and record the total amount spent raising a child during 1996. What type of sample will you be using?

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

Dr. Chandresh wants to study the U.S. media coverage of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak which left 8,000 Indians dead and 50,000 injured. Which non-reactive research method would be ideal?

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.

What sources are the main providers of statistical data?

Why do some people criticize IQ tests as a measurement of intelligence?

Professor Smith wants to study sexual deviancy in men ages 15 – 45. What type of sampling might he reference?

Persons who have grown up with one parent and a sibling who is at least 8 years older and of the opposite sex of the parent residing at home tend to treat the older sibling as a parent figure. What level of theorizing is this statement?

Dr. Horse developed a measure of “quality of city life.” He included measures of many factors, including tax rate, quality of school system, cultural and recreational opportunities, pollution, traffic congestion, crime rate, and health care availability for 100 U.S. cities to get a score for each. Dr. Horse created a(n)

The process of an individual taking a systematic conceptual definition and creating a measurement tool to represent this conceptual definition is