Maria Wants to Look at How Immigrant Communities in the United

question 39

Multiple Choice

Maria wants to look at how immigrant communities in the United States come to acquire the dominant culture into which they have moved.She is studying the process of:

• A)primitive accumulation
• B)assimilation
• C)cultural resistance
• D)nationalism
• E)multiculturalism

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Definitions:

F Statistic

A ratio used in statistical analysis to determine the relationship between variances and to test hypotheses about the means of several populations.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, it is the hypothesis that suggests there is a difference or effect, in contrast to the null hypothesis which suggests no effect or difference.

Population Mean

The average characteristic or measure of a total population, representing a central or typical value of the population data.

Common Standard Deviation

A measure used in the context of comparing groups that assumes all groups have the same standard deviation, often used in analyses such as ANOVA.