Do Members of Congress Today Cast More or Fewer Votes

question 43

Multiple Choice

Do members of Congress today cast more or fewer votes on the floor than they did in the mid-20th century?

• A) More
• B) About the same
• C) Fewer
• D) We cannot compare because the process of voting has changed

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Definitions:

Z-values

Statistical measures that represent the number of standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from a sample, that is expected, with a particular probability, to contain the actual value of an unknown population parameter.

Sample Size

The total number of observations or data points collected in a statistical study.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis.