A) "Maria is interested in examining the links
between occupational prestige and job satisfaction among employees
in her company. She surveys a group of 45 employees, for the
purposes of examining differences in job satisfaction across
various occupational prestige categories. The value of 45 in this
study is an example of a __________ and the type of statistical
analysis that Maria will carry out is ____________."
"sample, inferential"
"population, descriptive"
"sample, descriptive"
"population, inferential "
B) A histogram should NOT be used for
_________.
ordinal scales of measurement
continuous variables
interval scales of measurement
data that are skewed
a histogram can be used in any of the above instances
C) Which of the following types of research can
determine causality?
true experiments
naturalistic observation research
correlational studies
parameter estimation