If an Anthropologist Studies Religion and Interviews Church Leaders About

question 47

Multiple Choice

If an anthropologist studies religion and interviews church leaders about how they were called to their positions,attends various rites of passage,writes down impressions and beliefs of the practitioners,and uses nonstatistical descriptions of the religion as a way of presenting information,the anthropologist is employing what type of data collection?

• A)Quantitative
• B)Qualitative
• C)Inductive
• D)Deductive
• E)Conversive

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom refer to the number of independent pieces of information used in the calculation of a statistic, often related to the number of samples minus the number of parameters estimated.

P Value

A statistical measure that indicates whether the results of an experiment are significant, specifically it measures the probability of observing the given results if the null hypothesis were true.

Type II Error

Error that occurs when the alternative hypothesis is true but the decision is made to not reject the null hypothesis.

Nonparametric Test

A type of statistical test that does not assume the data comes from a particular distribution, often used when data doesn't meet the assumptions of parametric tests.