Which of the Following Statements About the Political Opinions of Democrats

question 18

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the political opinions of Democrats and Republicans in the public is most accurate?

• A) Differences between the political opinions of Democrats and Republicans on a wide variety of policy questions are smaller today than during any other period in the last forty years.
• B) Differences between the political opinions of Democrats and Republicans on a wide variety of policy questions are greater today than during any other period in the last forty years.
• C) The differences between the political opinions of Democrats and Republicans have always been the same throughout American history and have not become more intense over the last forty years.
• D) Republicans and Democrats have similar opinions on all political issues with the exception of national security.
• E) The political opinions of Democrats and Republicans in the public are unaffected by the opinions of party leaders.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution where data is symmetrically distributed around the mean, with most values clustering around a central region.

Normally Distributed

A balanced distribution of probability about the mean, showing a higher occurrence rate for data near the mean compared to data far away.

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in hypothesis testing and other statistical analyses.

Z Scores

Scores that are normalized to show the number of standard deviations a data point is away from the distribution's average.