In Recent Years,the Filibuster Has ______

question 60

Multiple Choice

In recent years,the filibuster has ______.

• A) been used much less frequently than in the past
• B) become more likely to be used by bipartisan groups of opponents of civil rights legislation
• C) become a tactic regularly used by the minority party to block proposals of the majority party
• D) become a tactic regularly used by the majority party to block proposals of the minority party
• E) become a much weaker tactic because of recent reforms instituted by the Senate

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test

A statistical test used for comparing two related samples to determine if their population means rank differ.

Dependent Samples

Two or more groups of observations where the individuals or items in one group are related or matched to those in the other groups.

T-Test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups or to compare a sample mean with a known value when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Sign Test

A non-parametric test used to determine if there is a significant difference between paired observations, based on the direction of differences rather than the size.