A Researcher Wants to Measure Individual Support of Internationalism So

question 7

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A researcher wants to measure individual support of internationalism so she creates an additive index or index consisting of multiple ordinal-level variables measuring attitudes on the U.N., foreign policy, foreign aid, and foreign intervention.

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