Exam 5: Analyzing Class With the GSS

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" Figure 5.1 -Excluding the nonvalid response categories the variable DEMTODAY has _____ valid response categories.

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10)." Figure 5.2 -When the variable DEMTODAY is recoded with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10)" what is the best way to indicate what a score of 4 represents?

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" Figure 5.1 -The variable CLASS is best understood as:

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" Figure 5.1 -According to Figure 5.1, which group was most likely to respond that democracy is working "very poorly" in American today?

Figure 5.3 -More generally, Figure 5.3 suggests that:

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10)." Figure 5.2 -Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between CLASS and DEMTODAY, as represented in Figure 5.2?

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" Figure 5.1 -The variable CLASS is best described as:

Figure 5.3 -What is the best interpretation of the top number in the resulting table of "Main Statistics" (5.19)?

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" Figure 5.1 -According to Figure 5.1, which group was most likely to respond that democracy is working "very well" in American today?

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?" The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10)." Figure 5.2 -Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of the 19.8, in the upper-left corner of Figure 5.2?