The idea of contextual effects is captured by which of the following?
a. Women in management positions, on average, earn less income than their male counterparts.
b. Education and job satisfaction vary together.
c. The effect of education on job satisfaction depends upon occupation.
d. Education and income are positively related.
e. all of the above
Question 2An important issue is whether or not patients' opinions of the mental hospital change as a consequence of their commitment. Unfortunately, there are no studies of this issue.
a. true
b. false
Question 3Putnam accepts the hypothesis that in-group trust and out-group trust are negatively correlated.
a. true
b. false
Question 4Good public policy generally requires that any proposed solution to a social problem should seem _______________________.
a. practical
b. effective
c. morally right
d. all of the above
e. a & b only
Question 5Clearing of estates was a euphemism (a polite way of saying) to describe the process of ____________________________.
a. deforestation
b. harvesting
c. getting rid of the people on them
d. sweeping pests and vermin from the lands
e. both a & b
Question 6Mental hospitals and their patients have been little studied.
a. true
b. false
Question 7Political conservatism and income tend to be positively related, with the latter assumed to the independent variable. Given this, we would properly sketch or diagram the model as follows: _____________________.
a. Political conservatismIncome
b. IncomePolitical conservatism
c. Political conservatismIncomeRace
d. Political conservatismSexIncome