Suppose that a student taking research methods proposes to test the hypothesis that "playing violent video games leads men to have negative attitudes toward women
" After being asked to operationalize her variables the student proposes the following hypotheses. Which one provides the best operational definitions of her variables?
a. Playing video games that advocate violence leads men to have bad feelings toward women.
b. Playing video games does not lead men to have negative feelings toward women.
c. Playing the violent video game Battle Warrior for 2 hours a day for one week will cause men to have negative attitudes toward women as measured by the Hostility Toward Women scale.
d. Playing Nintendo for more than 3 hours a day leads college-aged men to have negative feelings toward women.
C
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Given the preference orderings listed above, what would the result be of a pair-wise contest between the spending choices tax cut and education?
family member to the emergency room and has a very poor experience with the level of medical care provided at the local hospital. This leads her to view improving medical care as a higher priority than improving education in the municipality, if money is to be spent improving any programs. Councillors 1 and 2 do not change their preference orderings. Thus, the councillors now have the following preference orderings over the spending choices: Councillor 1: Education, Medical, Tax cut Councillor 2: Medical, Tax cut, Education Councillor 3: Tax cut, Medical, Education Assume that the councillors hold a round-robin tournament that pits each alternative against every other alternative in a series of pair-wise votes. The winner is the alternative that wins the most contests. Based on this information, answer the following four questions. A. education B. medical C. tax cut D. It would be a tie.
Given the preference orderings listed below, what would the result be of a pair-wise contest between the spending choices tax cut and education?
A. education
B. medical
C. tax cut
D. it would be a tie