What Is the General Tendency of a President's Popularity

question 30

Multiple Choice

What is the general tendency of a president's popularity?

• A) Presidents usually begin with moderate ratings that move drastically up or down, depending on their success.
• B) Presidents usually start out popular and decline over the next four years.
• C) Presidents usually maintain the public approval ratings they had when entering office, unless there is an economic recession or international crisis.
• D) Presidents usually begin very unpopular and increase their popularity significantly as their terms in office continue.
• E) No pattern has been discerned in presidential approval ratings.

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Definitions:

Sample

A portion of a broader demographic picked for the sake of conducting studies, observations, or questionnaires to collect data representative of the larger population.

Nonresponse Error

An error that occurs in survey research when some participants do not respond, potentially biasing the results.

Survey

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Cluster Samples

A sampling technique where the population is divided into groups (clusters) and a random sample of these clusters is selected to represent the whole population.