Which of the following is a double-barreled hypothesis?
A) Taxpayers tend to accept taxes that both go for services they directly receive (road repair) and are
collected in a more subtle manner (cigarette and casino taxes).
B) Taxpayers tend to object strongly to new taxes when economic conditions are declining and to ones that
wealthiest people do not have to pay.
C) Generally speaking, taxpayers are more likely to support tax hikes when the government is seen as
efficient and elected officials win office by a large majority.
D) Taxpayers who tend to oppose increases in tax rates for high-income families generally support marketoriented economic tax breaks.
Professor Gowda used the Statistics Canada data set to examine the trend in Canadian unemployment rates
over the last forty years. Unfortunately, how unemployment was measured changed several times during this
time period. This is an issue of
A) ecological fallacy. B) reliability. C) validity. D) reductionism.
When writing a report about a field research study, researchers often mix data and analysis together. If they
do NOT do so, they are committing
A) Bacon's fallacy. B) separation of inference.
C) error of reductionism. D) error of segregation.
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