Which Statement Is Normative

question 226

Multiple Choice

Which statement is normative?

• A)The rate of unemployment is 9%.
• B)A high rate of economic growth creates jobs.
• C)The federal government spends half of its budget on national defense.
• D)Everyone in the United States deserves to be covered by national health insurance.

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Definitions:

Convenience Sampling

A sampling technique where subjects are selected because of their convenient accessibility and proximity to the researcher.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution associated with a specific statistic derived from a random sample.

Normal Distribution

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable that is symmetrically bell-shaped, centered around its mean.

Sampling Error

The discrepancy between the statistical characteristics of a population and those of a sample from that population.