What Conclusion Did Richard Wanner Come to in His Research

question 74

Multiple Choice

What conclusion did Richard Wanner come to in his research on socioeconomic status and ascription?

• A) The link between family background and socioeconomic success is stronger than before.
• B) The link between family background and socioeconomic success is as strong as always.
• C) The link between family background and socioeconomic success has weakened.
• D) There is no longer any link between family background and socioeconomic success.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, typically defined as the sample size minus the number of parameters estimated.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables, showing the number of observations for each combination of categories.

Qualitative Variables

Variables that express categorical data and can be described or classified by qualities rather than numerical measures.

Contingency-table Test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant association between two categorical variables.