In Pager's Study of the Impact of Criminal Record on Employment

question 6

Multiple Choice

In Pager's study of the impact of criminal record on employment opportunity, what type of operational definition did she use to measure employment opportunity?

• A) Manipulation operations
• B) Verbal report
• C) Observation
• D) Archival records

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement or hypothesis in statistical inference that implies no effect or no difference, and it serves as the default or starting assumption for hypothesis testing.

Type I Error

Erroneously rejecting a valid null hypothesis, which is also known as a "false positive."

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that suggests there is no statistical significance between the two variables being studied.

Rejecting

In statistical hypothesis testing, it refers to the act of dismissing the null hypothesis based on the level of significance and the test statistic.