A Researcher Is Interested to Know Whether People of Different

Multiple Choice

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) The respondent believes that democracy in America is working very well.
B) The respondent believes that democracy in America is working moderately well.
C) The respondent believes that democracy in America is not working well.
D) The respondent believes that democracy in America is not working at all.