Many Americans Learn About Politics Accidentally, Illustrating

question 25

Multiple Choice

Many Americans learn about politics accidentally, illustrating:

• A) that the primary purpose of the media is framing how people think about politics.
• B) the pervasive power of the media even when they are not focusing on politics and government.
• C) the minimal effects hypothesis.
• D) the by-product theory.
• E) filtering.

Understand the conditions for using two-tailed tests in mean differences.

Recognize the Student t-distribution's role and calculation of degrees of freedom in hypothesis testing.

Identify independent samples and their significance in statistical testing.

Calculate degree of freedom in pooled-variance t-test for equal and unequal sample sizes.

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