In Her Research for the Second Shift,Arlie Hochschild Interviewed Married

question 124

Multiple Choice

In her research for The Second Shift,Arlie Hochschild interviewed married couples to find out how they dealt with changing family roles as more women entered the workforce.What advantages came from her decision to use interviews as a research method?

• A) It allowed for a large group of people to be included in the study.
• B) It ensured that the respondents were always honest and forthcoming about their family lives and marital roles.
• C) It allowed her to gather direct quotations and construct an intimate portrait of married couples.
• D) It created both a control group and an experimental group and allowed Hochschild to compare them.

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Definitions:

P-value

The probability of getting results from tests that are at least as exceptional as the outcomes truly noted, assuming the null hypothesis is factual.

Z Statistic

A type of standard score that represents the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a distribution.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped frequency distribution curve that is symmetric about the mean and described by its mean and standard deviation.

One-tailed Test

A hypothesis test where the area of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, used to determine if a parameter is greater than or less than a certain value.