Based on Historical Trends,which of the Following Is Most Likely

question 47

Multiple Choice

Based on historical trends,which of the following is most likely to be appointed to the Supreme Court?

• A)A fifty-five-year-old Caucasian man with a successful private law practice,but no judicial experience.
• B)A thirty-eight-year-old Hispanic man with ten years' experience on a state trial court.
• C)A fifty-two-year-old Caucasian woman with fifteen years' experience on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
• D)A fifty-eight-year-old Arab-American man with five years' experience as a district court judge.

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Definitions:

Sign Test

A non-parametric test used to evaluate the difference between the median of a paired sample and a hypothesized value.

Identical Medians

The statistical assessment that two or more groups have the same median value in their data distributions.

Identical Probability Distributions

Probability distributions that are exactly the same in terms of their statistical properties such as mean, variance, and skewness.

Single Population

Refers to a group or set of entities sharing one or more characteristics, from which data can be collected and analyzed as a unified whole.