Quantifiable Evidence Indicates That the Voting Rights Act of 1965

question 106

Multiple Choice

Quantifiable evidence indicates that the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• A) led to vote fraud and corruption in most state and federal elections.
• B) was an unreasonable infringement on the rights of the southern states as guaranteed under the Tenth Amendment.
• C) had no noticeable impact on voter registration among African Americans in the South.
• D) caused a dramatic increase in the proportion of southern African Americans who were registered to vote.

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Definitions:

Friedman Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to compare three or more matched or paired groups across multiple test conditions or times, assessing differences in rankings.

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical data that has a meaningful order or ranking among the categories but not a measurable distance between them.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically denoted by alpha.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, often used when comparing three or more groups.