Which of the Following Is a Way That Social Scientists

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a way that social scientists have tried to understand the decline in marriage rates?

• A) by observing the changed behaviors of married and single people
• B) by comparing trends of family representation on TV shows
• C) by comparing different families at different times
• D) by interviewing experts such as counselors

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a specified level of confidence.

Population Variance

The measurement of how data points in an entire population are spread out from the mean of the population.

Standard Deviation

The measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Variance

Measures the spread between numbers in a dataset, indicating how much the data points differ from the mean.