Which of These Is the Best Strategy for Policy Makers

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of these is the best strategy for policy makers to use to create better policy on a particular issue?

• A)follow what the opinion polls state regarding the issue
• B)balance opinion polls with their own knowledge on the issue
• C)set up stricter opinion polling guidelines to ensure greater reliability
• D)disregard opinion polls since the public has little policy making expertise

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Definitions:

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution's peak, indicating most values are high and few are low.

Tail

The far end portions of a distribution curve where the likelihood of values occurring becomes smaller; in skewed distributions, one tail may be longer than the other.

Negative Skew

A distribution that is skewed to the left, indicating that the tail on the left side is longer or fatter than the right side and the mean is typically less than the median.

Distribution

Refers to the way values in a data set are spread or dispersed, indicating the pattern of variations within the data.