Congress has created a number of __________ courts to adjudicate cases in highly specialized areas of concern, such as taxes, patents, and maritime law

Which of the following describes models used by social scientists to explain and understand abstract concepts?

a. contexts b. policies c. hypotheses d. paradigms

In designing a questionnaire to measure attitudes toward education of recently arrived immigrants, an important measurement issue to take into account is

A) interrater reliability. B) the effective range of the scale. C) the placebo effect. D) the religion of the immigrants.