Suppose You Found a Negative Correlation Between How Often Respondents

question 9

Multiple Choice

Suppose you found a negative correlation between how often respondents report that they attend church and how much money they claimed in charitable contributions on their most recent income tax return. This would indicate that

• A) church attendance and dollar amount of charitable contributions are unrelated.
• B) as church attendance decreases, dollar amount of charitable contributions decreases.
• C) as church attendance increases, dollar amount of charitable contributions decreases.
• D) you made a mistake in your calculation.

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Definitions:

Ownership Of Scarce Inputs

The possession and control over resources that are limited in nature and necessary for production.

Network Externalities

The effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people, where the value increases as the number of users rises.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale as fixed costs are spread out over more units of output.

Natural Monopoly

A monopoly that exists when increasing returns to scale provide a large cost advantage to having all output produced by a single firm.