Why Was Canada's "Most Important Election" Characterized by One Wit

question 86

Multiple Choice

Why was Canada's "most important election" characterized by one wit as "government of the people,by the lawyers,for the businessmen"?

• A) because it was declared legally invalid based on a vote miscount
• B) because it was viewed as being the result of big business sponsorship of all party campaigns
• C) because each of the candidates was a lawyer or businessperson looking after their own interests
• D) because it was believed to have been won on the basis a strong business lobby and expensive media campaigns

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Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.

Z Score

A statistical measurement that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, expressed in standard deviations.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of the numbers by the count of numbers in the set.

T Score

A type of standardized score that indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.