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Chapter 10 Practice Quiz
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Which of the following would
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students' class notes from a research methods course
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criminal court records of the county court
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observations of male-female interactions in the campus cafeteria
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graffiti in the bathrooms of the campus library
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letters to the editor of the campus newspaper
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Social science data archives are based on data from __________ and __________.
social surveys; ethnographic reports and in-depth interviews
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social surveys; experimental replications
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official health statistics; the public use microdata sample
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the census; other government agencies
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Which of the following sources of existing statistics was used in Kearney and Levine's study of the impact of MTV's
16 and Pregnant
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census data
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sales data on condoms
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Google Trends
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NCES data on high school dropout rates
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(Box 10.1) Which of the following datasets is the best example of
big data
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2010 Census of the U.S. population
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individual census records for 1920, 1930, and 1940
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self-reported political views for active users of Facebook
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World Bank vital statistics on births and deaths
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Which of the following statements is true of
content analysis
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It generates rich written descriptions of archival records.
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It may be applied to both verbal and nonverbal materials.
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Its most common units of analysis are individual people.
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It seldom involves quantification.
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In a computerized content analysis of sex bias in letters of recommendation, what would be the most likely
recording unit
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individual letters of recommendation
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the sex of the letter writer
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the sex of the person recommended
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words or phrases within the letters
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In comparison with manual coding in content analysis, computer coding
is now more frequently used.
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is generally limited to transcribed verbal materials.
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requires at least two reliability checks.
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requires more extensive coder training.
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What does it mean to say that Campbell and Schoenfeld
selected cases on the dependent variable
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All the states in their analysis had undergone mass incarceration.
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All the states in their analysis had essentially the same penal policies.
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They examined changes in penal policy during the same time period.
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They restricted their analysis to states with high crime rates.
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How are
truth tables
used in comparative historical research?
as a method of within-case analysis
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to identify intervening variables linking historical events
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to develop causal explanations
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to test the accuracy or "truth" of historical accounts
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Compared with experimenters, users of existing data tend to give more attention to
formulating an hypothesis.
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research design.
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pretesting.
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data evaluation and analysis.
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