When It Comes to Finding Sources to Act as Owners

question 25

Multiple Choice

When it comes to finding sources to act as owners of claims,the media tend to prefer

• A)sources that have credentials that make them experts on the topic.
• B)activists who have long histories of working on a particular problem.
• C)people who have experience with a problem and will elicit sympathy from the public.
• D)people who are already well known and have high status.

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Definitions:

Normal Quantile Plot

A graphical method for assessing whether or not a data set is approximately normally distributed.

Residuals

The differences between observed values and the values predicted by a model, used in regression analysis to assess the fit of the model.

Regression Model

A statistical model used to understand the relationship between one dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Multiple Linear Regression

A method in statistics that establishes the connection between one dependent variable and multiple independent variables by applying a linear equation to the data collected.