ELEMENTARY STATISTICS IN SOCIAL
RESEARCH ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
PACKAGE
●● "A primary goal of social scientific research is to examine the
various concepts that constitute our knowledge of the social world and
then develop them into _____ that help us to explain, understand, and
make sense of the social world."
Answer: theories
●● The Deprivation Theory of Religiosity states that people who have
less (i.e. are deprived) relative to others in society would be expected to
be _____ religious than those who are not socially deprived.
Answer: more
●● The _____ variable is the variable you are trying to explain.
Answer: dependent
●● The _____ variable is the variable hypothesized to lead to, or explain
variation in another variable.
Answer: independent
,●● t or f: Inductive research begins with data, and concludes with theory
construction, while deductive research begins with a theory, from which
a hypothesis is derived and tested with data.
Answer: true
●● _____ data analysis is when you collect and analyze your own data.
When you re-analyze data that was collected by someone else, you are
engaging in _____ data analysis.
Answer: primary; secondary
●● Knowing a variable's level of measurement is important for
________ __ _______ ______ ____, since the type of information
contained in a variable determines what can be said about the data.
Answer: selecting an appropriate statistical tool
●● A variable that asks respondents' Religion (with possible categories
such as Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc.) would be
considered a _____-level variable.
Answer: nominal
●● Likert-scale type questions, where respondents are given a range of
categories such as "extremely satisfied," "somewhat satisfied," "neither
satisfied nor unsatisfied," "somewhat unsatisfied," and "extremely
satisfied" would be considered _____-level variables.
Answer: ordinal
, ●● If a survey asks for a respondent's age in years, the level of
measurement for this variable would be ____.
Answer: scale
●● What does GSS stand for?
Answer: General Social Survey
●● Which of the following best describes sampling error?
Answer: the difference between the population we are interested in
studying and the sample to which we have access.
●● As a general rule, the smaller the sampling error, the _____ likely the
data are representative of the population.
Answer: more
●● In the GSS, the value labels NA ("no answer"), DK ("don't know"),
and IAP ("inapplicable") are known as _____ data.
Answer: missing
●● When were the data discussed in Chapter 3 collected?
Answer: 2016
RESEARCH ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
PACKAGE
●● "A primary goal of social scientific research is to examine the
various concepts that constitute our knowledge of the social world and
then develop them into _____ that help us to explain, understand, and
make sense of the social world."
Answer: theories
●● The Deprivation Theory of Religiosity states that people who have
less (i.e. are deprived) relative to others in society would be expected to
be _____ religious than those who are not socially deprived.
Answer: more
●● The _____ variable is the variable you are trying to explain.
Answer: dependent
●● The _____ variable is the variable hypothesized to lead to, or explain
variation in another variable.
Answer: independent
,●● t or f: Inductive research begins with data, and concludes with theory
construction, while deductive research begins with a theory, from which
a hypothesis is derived and tested with data.
Answer: true
●● _____ data analysis is when you collect and analyze your own data.
When you re-analyze data that was collected by someone else, you are
engaging in _____ data analysis.
Answer: primary; secondary
●● Knowing a variable's level of measurement is important for
________ __ _______ ______ ____, since the type of information
contained in a variable determines what can be said about the data.
Answer: selecting an appropriate statistical tool
●● A variable that asks respondents' Religion (with possible categories
such as Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc.) would be
considered a _____-level variable.
Answer: nominal
●● Likert-scale type questions, where respondents are given a range of
categories such as "extremely satisfied," "somewhat satisfied," "neither
satisfied nor unsatisfied," "somewhat unsatisfied," and "extremely
satisfied" would be considered _____-level variables.
Answer: ordinal
, ●● If a survey asks for a respondent's age in years, the level of
measurement for this variable would be ____.
Answer: scale
●● What does GSS stand for?
Answer: General Social Survey
●● Which of the following best describes sampling error?
Answer: the difference between the population we are interested in
studying and the sample to which we have access.
●● As a general rule, the smaller the sampling error, the _____ likely the
data are representative of the population.
Answer: more
●● In the GSS, the value labels NA ("no answer"), DK ("don't know"),
and IAP ("inapplicable") are known as _____ data.
Answer: missing
●● When were the data discussed in Chapter 3 collected?
Answer: 2016
