Why Might a Shift of Power from the Federal Level

question 105

Multiple Choice

Why might a shift of power from the federal level to the states and localities mean a decline in the quality of American democracy?

• A) Voter turnout in state and local elections is considerably lower than in national elections.
• B) Local government is less organized and so is more confusing to most citizens.
• C) The media coverage of local events is much greater so that citizens are more informed of these local issues.
• D) The census has not been accurate for years, so the programs don't reflect the actual local communities.
• E) Local government is never as effective as national government.

Appreciate the probabilistic nature of confidence intervals and how they may not always contain the true population parameter.

Recognize the impact of changing sample sizes and confidence levels on the precision of interval estimates.

Learn the appropriate use of critical values in constructing confidence intervals depending on the desired confidence level.

Understand the importance of the sample mean in developing confidence interval estimates for population means.

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