Interest groups can best be defined as ________.
a. organizations that staff government
b. organizations that nominate candidates for elected office
c. a public group that organizes in an attempt to shape public policy
d. organizations of interesting people
c. a public group that organizes in an attempt to shape public policy
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Quasi-experiments are unlike experiments in that
A) they do not always include a comparison of at least two levels of an independent variable. B) actual manipulation of the independent variable is not always clearly defined or under the experimenter's control. C) often the experimenter cannot assign participants to groups in an unbiased manner. D) Both B and C
If you suspect that the groups in a nonequivalent control-group design differ on variables other than the dependent variable, you should
A) systematically identify potential confounding variables. B) measure the variables that may be confounded. C) carefully rule out the alternative hypotheses. D) All of the above