Ichiro Is Interested in Finding Out How Many Students Plan

question 80

Multiple Choice

Ichiro is interested in finding out how many students plan to vote in an upcoming federal election.According to the theory of planned behaviour,which of the following questions would be the best predictor of whether a student would vote in the election?

• A) What are your attitudes about Canadian politics?
• B) What are your attitudes about voting in federal elections?
• C) What are your attitudes about the last federal election?
• D) What are your attitudes about your current Member of Parliament?

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Definitions:

Distribution

Refers to the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.

F Statistic

A value calculated during an ANOVA test that determines if the means of several groups are all equal, used to test the null hypothesis.

F Distribution

A continuous probability distribution that arises in the testing of whether two population variances are equal and in the analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in an analysis without violating any constraints, influencing the flexibility of statistical calculations.