Rational Ignorance Is

question 9

Multiple Choice

Rational ignorance is

• A)a result of our educational system.
• B)the curtain, or wall, of knowledge between the persons that are educated and those that are not.
• C)the curtain behind which people choose to hide to avoid knowledge about poverty and, in general, the unequal distribution of income.
• D)the curtain separating educated voters from uneducated voters.
• E)the state of not acquiring information because the costs of acquiring it are greater than the benefits.

---

Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A series of outcome numbers, from sample statistics, expected to contain within the unknown value of a population attribute.

Democratic Candidate

A person seeking or nominated for election representing the Democratic Party in the United States.

Confidence Interval

An interval estimate of a population parameter that is computed from sample data, indicating the reliability of an estimate.

Normally Distributed

Describes a dataset whose distribution forms a symmetric, bell-shaped curve when plotted, with most data near the mean.