Political Analysts Have Identified a Significant Change in the American

question 26

Essay

Political analysts have identified a significant change in the American public's level of trust in government over the last 50 years. Describe the direction of this change and discuss some of the recent events that have led Americans to reevaluate their feelings toward government. Is there any reason to be worried about how much trust citizens have in their government?

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

An experimental design that groups subjects into blocks based on certain variables to control the variables' effect on the experiment, and randomly assigns treatments within those blocks.

F-distribution

A statistical distribution used in the analysis of variance, among other tests, characterized by two parameters that determine its shape.

Skewed to the Right

Describes a distribution where the tail is longer on the right side, indicating that there are a number of outliers higher than the mode.

Test Statistic

A statistic derived from sample data in a hypothesis test that is utilized to determine if the null hypothesis should be discarded.