Exam 3: Asking Questions in Political Science

The following answer choices: don't know, other, I would not vote, US: Republican, US: Democrat, to a survey question based on party choice are examples of:

A nominal variable with only two categories is considered a/an:

When thinking about a possible correlation among variables, it is a good idea to:

Variables must vary because:

Whether we can say that a particular value in one variable caused a particular value in a second variable is called:

It is important that you do not include the characteristics you used to define the research population as one of your:

Why should researchers not choose independent variables arbitrarily?

In the question, "What is the effect of religion on political freedom?" religion is a/an:

Variables with ratio measurement:

Which of the following is an example of ordinal measurement?

The dependent variable is:

What is the WVS?

A variable that interacts with an independent variable in some way to produce an effect on the dependent variable is called a/an:

The unit of analysis for World Values Survey data is:

For your project, any variable with nominal measurement that has more than two categories will require the researcher to:

The process of identifying indicators in order to measure and assess concepts empirically is known as:

A research population is a group of observations that:

What is one drawback to variables with ordinal measurement?

A correlation is:

An antecedent variable is a variable: