Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Older individuals make more money than younger individuals is an acceptable explanation for an observed difference in income between older and younger workers.
2. A politician claiming that lowering tax rates produces higher revenues is a valid hypothesis.
3. Climate change is related to human activity is a valid hypothesis. True or false?
4. Is the statement that individuals with advanced college degrees are more politically tolerant than individuals without college degrees an example of a valid hypothesis?
5. A valid hypothesis must clearly state the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable.
1. False (more information is needed such as type of job, education, etc.)
2. True (because it is testable)
3. false (because it is ambiguous)
4. true
5. True
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A potential problem facing nonequivalent control-group designs is that
A) unequal group size may hinder the analyses. B) these designs are unethical. C) groups may differ on variables other than the dependent variable. D) these designs work better with animals than with humans.
Why do deep global climate change agreements tend to fail?
a. The poorer countries are always unfairly burdened with enforcement while wealthy countries are free to violate agreements. b. Democracies take too long to make domestic policy changes leading to a break down of the agreement for less democratic nations. c. The demands for individual countries are weak because individual leaders want to remain in office for as long as possible. d. Deep agreements cost too much to carry out at this time but future technological advances will lower costs very soon.