Bill Does Not Believe the Poor Individually Have Less Motivation

question 75

Multiple Choice

Bill does not believe the poor individually have less motivation, but does see that there are certain traits, beliefs, and habits they engage in which keep them poor and unable to move forward. Bill is a proponent of __________.

• A) structural theory
• B) institutional discrimination theory
• C) a culture-of-poverty hypothesis
• D) a political economy approach to poverty

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Definitions:

Total Variation

The overall variation in a set of data, which can be partitioned into components attributed to various sources in statistical analyses.

SSR

Sum of Squares due to Regression, a measure used in statistical analysis to describe the variation explained by the regression model.

Coefficient

A fixed number or constant that precedes and multiplies the variable in an algebraic term.

Multiple Regression

A statistical technique that models the relationship between a dependent variable and two or more independent variables to predict the outcome.