Personality Plays a More Important Role in Explaining the Presidency

question 131

Multiple Choice

Personality plays a more important role in explaining the presidency than it does in explaining Congress because a president is

• A) more likely to rely on hands-on politics and persuasiveness to enact policy.
• B) less constrained by the rules and roles that operate within government.
• C) more likely to be judged by his character in addition to his accomplishments.
• D) relatively immune from public opinion and polls.
• E) less constrained by the judiciary or current notions of constitutional principles.

Calculate and interpret the range and standard deviation.

Understand the concepts of percentile and normal distribution.

Evaluate the impact of extreme scores on measures of variation.

Understand the concept and significance of externalities in economics.

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Definitions:

Survivor Bias

The analytical error of focusing on the surviving subjects of a study or process and overlooking those that did not survive due to lack of visibility.

Broad Sample

A wide-ranging or extensive group of people or items selected from a population, used for research or statistical analysis.

Survivor Bias

A logical error that involves focusing on the people or things that survived some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility.

Financially Successful

A state or condition of having significant income, profit, or assets, exceeding financial liabilities and obligations.