In Your American Government Class,you Are Discussing Shifts in Public

question 54

Multiple Choice

In your American government class,you are discussing shifts in public opinion.You are asked to imagine that a recent Pew Research Center poll reported a sudden drop of 40 percentage points in the trust level that Americans have for their government.What explanation would you offer to decipher this sudden drop?

• A)The poll must be an indication that the public is unhappy because economic conditions are bad.
• B)The poll must be a reflection of people's fuzzy thinking,which occasionally turns particularly negative.
• C)The poll,obviously,must be exhibiting sampling error.
• D)The poll must be an illustration of the paradox often referred to as the miracle of aggregation.
• E)The poll must be a reaction to recent events that have so disturbed the public that the opinions of many were pushed in the same direction all at once.

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