Social Research Methods II (ANTH/POL/SOC 321) Exam 1 Name: ________________________________________ For questions 1-18, indicate the selected answer on your scantron sheet. Please select the best...

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Social Research Methods II (ANTH/POL/SOC 321) Exam 1 Name: ________________________________________ For questions 1-18, indicate the selected answer on your scantron sheet. Please select the best answer from those provided for each question. For questions 19-25, fill in the blank directly on the exam paper. Please hand in the full exam and scantron when finished. 1. ______________ data provides for richer description and explanation of social phenomena because it includes more detail and context while ______________ data allows for easier summarization of social phenomena. a. Quantitative; qualitative b. Qualitative; quantitative c. Inductive; deductive d. Deductive; inductive 2. Dr. Xu observed a positive relationship between a country’s average spending on health care and that country’s life expectancy. This means that… a. respondents were unwilling to report information on these variables. b. there is a large relationship between health care spending and life expectancy. c. in general, greater health care spending reduces life expectancy. d. in general, greater health care spending increases life expectancy. 3. A study reported in American Sociological Review (2015) was entitled "Prayers, Protest, and Police: How Religion Influences Police Presence at Collective Action Events in the United States, 1960 to 1995." Which of the following was most likely the dependent variable in the study? a. religion b. police presence at collective action events c. the United States d. year Use the graph below to answer questions 4 and 5. 4. What are the cases (also called “units of observation”) in the graph above? a. religiosity b. wealth c. individuals d. countries 5. Looking at the pattern in the data, there appears to be a _______ relationship between wealth and religiosity. a. nonexistent b. nonlinear c. positive d. negative 6. Which of the following graphs would best be interpreted as showing no relationship? 7. A researcher that measures income by asking respondents to provide their annual income in US dollars is measuring income as a _________ variable. a. non-orderable discrete (nominal) b. orderable discrete (ordinal) c. continuous d. dichotomous 8. Principal Munoz examined the language spoken at home for children attending his elementary school. He found that about half of his students spoke Spanish at home and about half spoke English at home. In this study “language spoken at home” is the __________ and “English” and “Spanish” are the _______________. a. concept; measures b. measure; concepts c. variable; attributes d. attribute; variables Use the portion of the Panera Bread customer survey below to answer question 9. 9. The second question in the survey above is measuring the way that customers placed orders to Panera Bread at what level of measurement? a. non-orderable discrete (nominal) b. orderable discrete (ordinal) c. continuous d. quantitative 10. A ______________ is a subset of cases selected from a ______________. a. sample; population b. population; sample c. sample; frequency table d. frequency table; sample Use the figure below to answer question 12. 11. How is the classroom age distribution above being displayed? a. Histogram b. Bar chart c. Scatterplot d. Crosstabulation 12. _______________________ is a type of analysis that uses a single variable for the purpose of description. a. Univariate analysis b. Multivariate analysis c. Bivariate analysis d. Historical comparative analysis 13. Which of the following is an example of quantification? a. always using the largest possible sample available b. summing over all of the cases in a sample to find the average c. counting up all of the cases in a sample to find the sample size d. assigning numbers to college majors in order to analyze them in SPSS 14. When we take information from a sample to estimate the likely properties of a population, we are doing... a. descriptive statistics b. inferential statistics c. operationalization d. summation 15. Which of the following variables is discrete? a. age in years b. unemployment rate as a percent c. political party affiliation d. hours of TV watched per week 16. Knowing that LeBron James and Bill Gates never earned a college degree yet became two of the richest men in our country allows us to conclude that there is probably not a relationship between having a college degree and income. a. True b. False 17. A ____________ is used to describe a variable in a sample. a. population b. hypothesis c. parameter d. statistic 18. We often make a prediction about what we expect to find when analyzing data. This is called a(n)… a. operational definition b. hypothesis c. latent variable d. manifest variable A survey asked 100 parents from Queens how many children they have. The data is displayed in the frequency table below. Use the table to answer questions 19 and 20. 19. How many parents reported having four children? ___________________ 20. What percentage of parents reported having three children or less? ___________________ 21. What is the value of ? ___________________ 22. Let and . What is the value of ? ___________________ 23. Let , , , , and . What is the value of ? ___________________ Go on to next page. Refer to the images below to answer questions 24 and 25. 24. Please provide one variable that could be used to describe differences in the above sample of individuals ________________________ 25. Please provide one attribute of the variable that you’ve chosen in question 24 above. ________________________ Classroom Frequency181920212223242526More10271712320010Age Frequency 6 # of childrenfrequencyrelative freq.percentcum. percent 1180.1818%18% 2350.3535%53% 3210.2121%74% 4140.1414%88% 590.099%97% 630.033%100% Total1001.00100%---