Caught Up in the Emotional and Almost Contagious Energy of a Crowd

question 50

Short Answer

Caught up in the emotional and almost contagious energy of a crowd, people will often experience levels of enthusiasm, ecstasy, pride, and fear quite out of keeping with their solitary experience. Durkheim regarded this as a sense of collective ________.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A number calculated from sample data used to make inferences about a population parameter in hypothesis testing.

Mean Square

The mean square is the average of the squares of a set of numbers, often used in variance and regression analysis.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in a statistical calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints.

F-statistic

A ratio of two variances that is used in analysis of variance (ANOVA) to assess the equality of variances across groups.