Test Bank for Essentials of Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice 1st Edition Bachman

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Paternoster, Essentials of Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice
SAGE Publishing, 2018


Test Bank
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Why Learning This Stuff Is Important!

1. Which type of research seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena, to predict how a
dependent variable will change or vary in response to variation in the independent variable?
a. descriptive
b. explanatory
c. evaluation
d. case study
Ans: B
Answer Location: The Role of Statistical Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Explanatory
Research
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

2. A researcher is analyzing one’s fear of crime and how gender, race, class, and age all have an effect.
Which would be the dependent variable?
a. gender
b. class
c. age
d. fear of crime
Ans: D
Answer Location: The Role of Statistical Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Explanatory
Research
Cognitive Domain: Application

3. Which of the following would NOT be an example of evaluation research?
a. analyzing the effect the D.A.R.E. program has on students using drugs
b. analyzing a reading intervention program to understand if students’ literacy levels increased
c. Analyzing the concentration of gun crimes in hot spots
d. analyzing the effect of job training and education programs on the likelihood of recidivism by ex-felons
Ans: C
Answer Location: The Role of Statistical Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Evaluation
Research
Cognitive Domain: Application

4. A ______ is a smaller group of data that is selected from a population.
a. microgroup
b. sample
c. subsample
d. sampling error
Ans: B
Answer Location: Populations and Samples
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

5. What is considered to be the fundamental aspect of probability sampling?
a. populations
b. samples
c. unbiased selection
d. random selection

, Instructor Resource
Paternoster, Essentials of Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice
SAGE Publishing, 2018

Ans: D
Answer Location: Populations and Samples
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

6. Variables that only convey classification or categorization information are at what level of
measurement?
a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio
Ans: A
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement: Nominal Level of Measurement
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

7. Variables that we assume can be added and subtracted, as well as multiplied and divided, and have
true-zero points are at what level of measurement?
a. nominal
b. interval
c. ratio
d. ordinal
Ans: C
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement: Ratio Level of Measurement
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

8. Which type of statistic involves collecting, organizing, and summarizing data?
a. inferential
b. experimental
c. descriptive
d. sample
Ans: C
Answer Location: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Cognitive Domain: Application

9. The larger the sampling error, the ______ representative the sample is of the population.
a. less
b. more
c. same
d. better
Ans: A
Answer Location: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Cognitive Domain: Application

10. If a researcher is comparing individuals who had and had not ever committed armed assault, an
indicator for having ever committed armed assault would be what kind of variable?
a. continuous
b. qualitative
c. ratio
d. binary
Ans: D
Answer Location: Levels of Measurement: The Case of Dichotomies
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension


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