The Ferguson Effect Is Argued to Have Led to a Decrease

question 38

True/False

The Ferguson effect is argued to have led to a decrease in arrests due to police being wary of enforcing the law as a result of reduced police legitimacy.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that asserts there is no significant difference or effect and serves as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

Chi-square Statistic

A statistical test used to determine if there's a significant difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies in categorical data.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information used in the calculation of a statistic, often associated with the complexity of the data.