When Smaller Political Groups Wish to Have Influence in a Government

question 48

Multiple Choice

When smaller political groups wish to have influence in a government with pluralistic voting,they will:

• A)drop from races,and side with the majority leader to gain their favor.
• B)stay in political races,in the hopes of swaying the vote away from the candidate the majority favors.
• C)drop from races,and campaign instead to sway the vote away from the candidate the majority favors.
• D)stay in political races,in the hopes of a miracle.

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Definitions:

Significant

In a statistical context, denotes results that are unlikely to have occurred by chance, indicating a meaningful difference or relationship.

Type I Errors

False positive conclusions in statistical hypothesis testing, erroneously indicating that a novel effect exists.

Type II Errors

Occurs in hypothesis testing when the null hypothesis is falsely accepted, meaning that a real effect or difference is missed.

Sampling Distributions

The probability distribution of a statistic obtained from a large number of samples drawn from a specific population.