Which of the Following Would Be an Example of Selection

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an example of selection bias?

• A)studying female literacy to see if it is correlated with nondemocratic regimes
• B)only studying material that is consistent with your political ideology
• C)only using statistical methods to conduct research
• D)studying causes for the emergence of democracy by looking only at case studies where democracy emerged
• E)studying revolution by looking at case studies of revolution and nonrevolution

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Price Falls

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