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31) Connie and Tom both received 75 percent on the social research methods final exam. The mean for all women who took the test was 80 percent and the median was 75 percent with a standard deviation of 5 percent. The mean and median for the men was 65 percent with a standard deviation of 10 percent. What is the z-score for Connie and Tom relative to those of their own sex? A) Connie’s z-score is +1, Tom’s is -2, so Connie did better. B) Connie’s z-score is -1, Tom’s is +1, so Tom did better C) Both Connie and Tom have the same z-score, 1. D) Connie’s z-score is 0 and Tom’s is +1, so he did worse. E) Connie’s z-score is -2 and Tom’s is -1, so Tom did better. 32) Your research assistant finds a positive relationship between mother’s education and income at age 40. The relationship remained after controlling for the family’s social class. This means that A) social class is really the causal variable. B) social class does not have an impact on the relationship. C) the original relationship is spurious. D) income is caused by neither the mother’s education level nor her social class. E) the mother’s education has no effect on her future income. 33) What Type of relationship exists between level of violence and level of education? A) There is no relationship. B) There is a negative relationship. C) There is a positive relationship. D) There is a non-linear relationship. E) There is a recursive relationship. 34) How many individuals with 17+ years of education engaged in a level of violence defined as medium? A) 20 B) 180 C) 160 D) 55 E) 5 35) Among the violent offenders in the following table, what is the ratio of males to females? A) 1 male to 1 female, or 1:1 B) 2 males to 3 females, or 2:3 C) 4 males to 1 female, or 4:1 D) 2 males to 1 female, or 2:1 36) Which of the following statements best describes the information contained in the following table: A) Among West students, more students major in education than in sociology. B) Of sociology majors on the four campuses, a higher percent attend South than the other campuses. C) 30 percent of all South students are business majors. D) One-in-four of all business majors on the four campuses attend West. E) Twice as many students at East major in sociology than in business. 37) What does it mean if someone tells you that they calculated a correlation of -0.75? A) There is a strong negative relationship between two ratio or interval level variables. B) There is statistical independence between the two variables. C) The variables that were used were measured at the nominal level and the relationship between them is strong. D) The researcher looked at two ordinal-level variables and found no relationship between them. E) The person made an error in calculation: correlations can never be negative numbers. 38) Which of the following research topics is an example of multivariate analysis? A) An analysis of the ages of all women who are corporate executives B) An analysis of the relationship between age, sex, and Type of restaurant frequented in Saskatoon C) An analysis of the relationship between undergraduate majors and level of position held in a major corporation D) An analysis of the relationship between Type of offense and length of prison sentence E) The relationship between socio-economic status and annual income 39) Professor Masai Mori found a strong relationship between a student’s level of academic achievement and whether they came from a single-parent or two-parent family. In a trivariate table, he controlled for the student’s ethnicity. He then found that the relationship held only for Asian students. In the elaboration paradigm, this is an example of A) a replication pattern. B) a specification pattern. C) an explanation pattern. D) an interpretation pattern. E) an ex post facto hypothesis. 40) Professor Olivia Ottoman found a strong positive relationship between the number of extracurricular activities in high school and occupational success later on as an adult. She then controlled for the respondent’s family class background upon beginning high school and the relationship vanished. In the elaboration paradigm, this is called a(n) A) replication pattern. B) specification pattern. C) interpretation pattern. D) explanation pattern. E) ex post facto hypothesis.