According to Professor Inbau, All of the Following Are Important

question 31

Multiple Choice

According to Professor Inbau, all of the following are important points concerning the importance of confessions except ______.

• A)many criminal cases can be solved only through confessions or through information obtained from other individuals
• B)suspects often will not admit their guilt unless subjected to lengthy interrogations by the police
• C)successful police questioning requires sophisticated interrogation techniques that may be considered trickery or manipulative in ordinary police interactions with the public
• D)police often resort to coercive tactics to extract a confession, although these can be considered unconstitutional

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Ordinal Random Variable

A random variable that has outcomes which can be ordered or ranked but does not necessarily have a quantitative value.

Nominal Random Variable

A variable that represents data which can be classified into distinct categories with no logical order.

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Data classified into categories that cannot be ordered or ranked; purely qualitative.

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