Standard deviation in statistics is the measure that indicates in the essence of______________?
A. Central tendency
B. spread of the sample means/values
C. Both A an B
D. None of these
A. Central tendency
B. spread of the sample means/values
C. Both A an B
D. None of these
A. open mobility
B. lateral mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. intergenerational mobility
A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries
A. the best possible outcome available
B. a perspective emphasizing the primacy of ideas
C. a model based on certain features of a phenomenon
D. the social agenda of political idealists
A. sociologists like to put a value on different theories
B. Knowledge refers to people and their values
C. theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values
D. attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable
A. the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earning than the mean
D. all of the above
A. quite different
B. all alike
C. growing more nearly alike
D. none of these