When You Compare People to Police and the Larger Society

question 64

Multiple Choice

When you compare people to police and the larger society, people who are the victims of discrimination or who feel powerless or alienated from society

• A)are more likely to be more coercive persons in society.
• B)are more likely to have public attitudes about other social and political issues of the day.
• C)are likely to have more negative attitudes toward the police.
• D)may be in fact very satisfied with their treatment by the police.

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Definitions:

Equal-variances T-test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups, assuming that both groups have the same variance.

Normal Populations

Populations in which the distribution of data points follows a normal distribution curve, important in many statistical methods.

Population Means

The average of a set of numerical values from the entire population being studied.

Two Independent Samples

Refers to separate groups of data collected from different populations, where individuals in one sample have no relation to individuals in the other.