What Was the Sundance Sea

question 79

Short Answer

What was the Sundance Sea?

Understand the purposes and importance of statistics in various contexts.

Differentiate between types of graphs and their uses in displaying data.

Identify appropriate measures of central tendency and variability, especially in the presence of outliers.

Distinguish between different types of variables (qualitative, quantitative, latent, etc.) and scales of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio).

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Definitions:

Pendleton Act

A federal law enacted in 1883 that established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

Spoils System

A practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory.

Pendleton Act

A United States federal law enacted in 1883, establishing that government jobs should be awarded based on merit rather than political affiliation.

Hatch Act

A U.S. federal law that prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch from engaging in some forms of political activity.