If the Average Degree of Political Orientation Changes in a Population-For

question 19

Multiple Choice

If the average degree of political orientation changes in a population-for example,if people tend to get increasingly conservative as they get older-then that population is displaying:

• A)mean level change.
• B)mean level stability.
• C)rank order stability.
• D)rank order change.

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Definitions:

Categorical Variables

Variables that represent categories and can take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation of a statistic, typically in the context of parameter estimation.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of independent random variables.

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more groups to see if at least one is statistically significantly different from the others.