At the Same Time That the Literary Digest Inaccurately Predicted

question 24

Multiple Choice

At the same time that the Literary Digest inaccurately predicted the 1936 presidential election, George Gallup was using what type of methodology to more accurately make predictions from polling data?​

• A) ​game theory
• B) ​distribution theory
• C) ​population control theory
• D) ​probability sampling methods
• E) ​distributive properties methods

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Definitions:

Treisman

Anne Treisman, a psychologist known for her work in attention, particularly the feature integration theory, which describes how we perceive objects.

Linguistic Characteristics

Features that define a particular language, including grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.

Bottleneck Theory

A theory suggesting that individuals have a limited capacity of processing information, causing a bottleneck in the system that delays further processing.

Unattended Material

refers to information that is present in the environment but not actively processed by the conscious mind due to the focus on another task or material.