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Suicide Rates Are High in Some Aboriginal Communities in Canada

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Suicide rates are high in some Aboriginal communities in Canada. If the sociological imagination is used in an effort to understand this issue, which of the following is being demonstrated?


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Objective Tests

Tests that measure an individual's performance against a standard set of criteria or answers, minimizing subjective judgment.

Double-blind Tests

Experimental procedures in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias.

Single-blind Tests

Experimental designs in which the participants do not know which treatment or intervention they are receiving, but the experimenters do.

Hypothesis

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena; scientific hypotheses specify relationships among events or variables and are empirically tested.

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