If Media Were Evaluated and Controlled by a National Board

question 21

Multiple Choice

If media were evaluated and controlled by a national board of industry practitioners, government officials, academicians, and members of the public this would be an example of ______.

• A) the best operation of the First Amendment
• B) technocratic control
• C) educating of the public
• D) regulation as it now exists

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

In statistics, it refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, less the number of parameters estimated.

Chi-Square

A statistical test used to assess the differences between categorically grouped data by comparing the observed frequencies of groups with expected frequencies derived from a hypothesis.

Row Variable

A variable that constitutes the basis for organizing data in rows in a table or matrix, often used in cross-tabulation.

Column Variable

A variable represented in one of the vertical columns of a data table, often used in multivariate analysis and cross-tabulations.