Most Political Appointees in the Bureaucracy Are Appointed

question 62

Multiple Choice

Most political appointees in the bureaucracy are appointed

• A) as a reward for political service.
• B) because someone has to fill the job, so it might as well be the president's friends.
• C) because of their expertise in the area.
• D) to help the president exercise control over the executive branch.

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Definitions:

Joint Probability

The chance that two or more incidents will happen concurrently.

Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data points are.

E(XY)

The anticipated outcome of multiplying two stochastic variables together, showing how their variances are interconnected.

COV(X,Y)

A measure of the degree to which two variables X and Y move together, indicating the strength and direction of their linear relationship.