In Universities Where There Are Strong Pressures for the Faculty

question 22

True/False

In universities where there are strong pressures for the faculty to publish, it can be said that a department head's power over a faculty member is inversely related to the member's publication record.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

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True Slope

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Least Squares

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