Conservatives have demonstrated more activity in the amygdala, known as the brain's "fear center, that have liberals or moderates Question 4 options: TrueFalse
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A. Which two groups of people have I compared in the analysis above? ___Extremely liberal and extremely conservative. B. Which group is more in favor of increasing gun control? ___extremely liberal C. Is the following statement true or false: Although there are differences between the groups, the average member of each group favors more gun control. ___True D. How confident am I that there is a difference between these two groups, that can be generalized to the population from which the sample was drawn? ___Under the assumption that the null hypothesis is correct, random sampling error would yield an observed mean difference of -.384 very nearly 0 percent of the time. E. Based on this analysis, do a reject my null hypothesis or fail to reject my null hypothesis? ___Reject my null hypothesis.
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EXAMPLE 6.2 Political Conservatism and Liberalism Some political commentators have remarked that citizens of the United States are increasingly conservative, so much so that many treat liberal as a dirty word. We can study political ideology by analyzing response to certain items on the GSS. For instance, that survey asks (with the POLVIEWS item) where you would place yourself on a seven-point scale of political views ranging from extremely liberal, point 1, to extremely conservative, point 7. Table 6.2 shows the scale and the distribution of responses among the levels for the 2006 survey. Results are shown separately according to the three categories for the variable labelled as RACE in the GSS. TABLE 6.2: Responses of Subjects on a Scale of Political Ideology Race Response Black White Other 1. Extremely liberal 10 36 1 2. Liberal 21 109 13 3. Slightly liberal 22 124 13 4. Moderate, middle of road 74 421 27 5. Slightly conservative 21 179 9 6. Conservative 27 176 7 7. Extremely conservative 11 28 2 n = 186 n = 1073 n = 72
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A researcher is studying acceptance of a political issue based on affiliation. She has a scenario where a politician supports a particular stance, but in one group, the politician is conservative, and in the other, the politician is liberal. The participants are then asked to rate how much they agree with the stance on a 9-point scale. The participants in the "liberal politician" condition produced the following scores: 6, 5, 8, 8, 9, 7, 6, 5. The participants in the "conservative politician" condition produced the following scores: 3, 5, 2, 4, 5, 8.
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