Which of These Is a Primary Reason That History Commonly

question 98

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a primary reason that history commonly matters in political life?

• A)Voters can only choose from candidates whose families have previously won elected office.
• B)American politicians have traditionally lacked the creativity to come up with new policy ideas.
• C)Rules and procedures have consequences for years, decades, or even centuries.
• D)Many political documents are written in classic languages like Sanskrit, Latin, and Aramaic.

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Definitions:

One-Group Pretest-Posttest Uninterpretable Design

Refers to a simplistic experimental design where a single group of subjects is tested before and after an intervention without a control group, making causal interpretations difficult.

Internal Validity

The extent to which a study can demonstrate a causal relationship between variables, free of confounding factors.

Random Assignment

is a process used in experimental designs to allocate participants to different groups in a study by chance, minimizing pre-existing differences among those groups.

Pretest-Posttest Nonequivalent Groups Design

A quasi-experimental design involving two groups that are not randomly assigned, with both groups measured both before (pretest) and after (posttest) a treatment or intervention.