When Economists Make Normative Statements,they Are

question 35

Multiple Choice

When economists make normative statements,they are

• A)speaking as scientists.
• B)speaking as policy advisers.
• C)making claims about how the world is.
• D)revealing that they are very liberal in their views of how the world works.

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Definitions:

Gender

A social construct that refers to the roles, behaviors, activities, expectations, and norms considered appropriate for individuals based on their perceived sex.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent ways by which a dynamic system can move, without violating any constraint imposed on it, indicating the amount of independent information available to estimate another piece of information.

Main Effect

The direct impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable in a statistical model.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a specified level of confidence.