A Tragedy of the Commons Occurs When a Resource Is

question 137

Multiple Choice

A tragedy of the commons occurs when a resource is

• A)rival and excludable.
• B)rival and nonexcludable.
• C)nonrival and nonexcludable.
• D)nonrival and excludable.

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Definitions:

Sociological Sample

A subset of a population selected for study in sociological research, aimed at making inferences about the larger group from which it is drawn.

Social Group

A collection of individuals who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity or identity.

Spurious

Describes something that is not genuine, authentic, or true; often used in statistics to refer to coincidental correlations between two variables that are actually caused by a third variable.

Control Variable

In experimental research, a variable that is kept constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable.