How Was the 2012 U

question 46

Multiple Choice

How was the 2012 U.S.election an example of an election that turned on voter turnout?

• A)Republicans boosted the participation rates of their traditional voters, and pushed voter registration for those favorably disposed to the Republican Party, while the Democrats paid less attention to grass-roots work, concentrating instead on TV advertising.
• B)Democrats boosted the participation rates of their traditional voters, and pushed voter registration for those favorably disposed to the Democratic Party, while the Republicans paid less attention to grass-roots work, concentrating instead on TV advertising.
• C)Democrats boosted the participation rates of their traditional voters, despite Republicans pushing voter registration for those favorably disposed to their party, and concentrating on TV advertising.
• D)Democrats boosted the participation rates of their traditional voters, and pushed voter registration for those favorably disposed to the Democratic Party, and despite Republicans paying attention to grass-roots work, and concentrating instead on TV advertising they still lost.

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Definitions:

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, often used as an alternative to one-way ANOVA when the assumptions of ANOVA are not met.

ANOVA F Test

A statistical test used to determine if there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.

Completely Randomized Experiments

Experimental designs where all subjects are allocated to groups based only on chance, reducing systematic bias.

Kruskal-Wallis H Test

A nonparametric test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.