Which of the Following Is Not an Empirically Testable Conclusion

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not an empirically testable conclusion?

• A) The unemployment rate would not have risen above 8% if the U.S. Treasury would have bailed out Lehman Brothers leading into the Great Recession.
• B) Larger firms are more productive.
• C) Multinational firms pay higher wages.
• D) States with minimum wage laws experience higher unemployment rates.

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Definitions:

Two-Tailed Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference in two directions, either greater than or less than a specified range or value.

Sampling Error

The deviation of a sample statistic from its population parameter due to the fact that only a subset of the population is observed.

Sample And Population Values

Quantitative or qualitative characteristics measured in a subset (sample) and those from the entire group of interest (population), respectively.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical technique that employs data from a sample to test a hypothesis regarding a population statistic.