Which of the Following Events Did NOT Have an Influence

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following events did NOT have an influence on the rise of the modern environmental movement?

• A) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
• B) Improved technology (live satellite feeds) that enabled television stations to get visual footage on the news on a daily basis
• C) Public activism in the civil rights and anti-war movements
• D) The blowout of an oil well in the Santa Barbara Channel
• E) All of these had an influence on the rise of the modern environmental movement

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Residual Plot

Graphical representation of the residuals that can be used to determine whether the assumptions made about the regression model appear to be valid.

Regression Model

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Correlation Coefficient

A numerical value indicating how much two or more variables change in relation to each other.

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