Public administration

Get you answers from book Chambliss, D. F., & Schutt, R. K. (2016). Making sense of the social worlds. Methods of investigations (6th ed).
Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage ISBN: 978-1-5063-6411-7
1.) Watson approached Sherlock Holmes with a fantastic story he heard earlier in the day. “My dear Holmes,”
he said, “I think I know what happened. You must get involved!” Holmes responded, “Watson, you know I
gather all the facts and evidence first. From there, I develop a theory and then test it.” Was Holmes employing
deductive or inductive reasoning?
A. Inductive reasoning
B. No answer text provided.
C. Deductive reasoning
D. No answer text provided.
2.) Which of the following would NOT be considered an unethical experiment?
A. Where rats get hurt.
B. Where people experience distress from participating in the experiment.
C. Where the placebo group did not get the health benefits of the control group and got physically ill.
D. Where people get hurt or die during the experiment.
3.) Name at least 2 of the 3 components a hypothesis must have.
4.) Identify the unit of analysis in the following sentence:
Identify the number of schools that have a guidance counselor.
5.) Choose the words in the following story that represent the
4 levels of measurements.
Three friends, Mbeki, Salim and Makeba were walking along the forest path thinking about their next challenge.
They were excited, unsure, and scared, respectively. All of a sudden, they encountered a rocky ravine whose
depth plunged 40 ft. below the earth’s surface. After navigating through that, they had to cross a rickety,
swaying 100 ft long bridge. The next adventure had begun.
A. Nominal
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
6.) A large random sample of first-year students at Rice University—a private university in Texas —was polled
about their overall satisfaction with campus living. To which population can the results of the poll safely be
generalized?
A. All first-year students at Rice University only
B. All students at Rice University only
C. Only first-year students at Rice University who were polled.
D. All first-year college students in Texas only.
7.) A factory overseer selects 40 threaded rods at random from those produced that week at the factory, then
she tests their tensile strength. Identify the population and sample in this setting.
A. The population is all threaded rods ever produced at the factory; the sample is the threaded rods produced
that week.
B. No answer text provided
C. The population is all threaded rods in the world; the sample is all threaded rods produced at the factory.
D. The population is threaded rods produced at the factory that week; the sample is the 40 threaded rods
selected.
8.) Below is the first question from the Info World (computer publication) “product evaluation survey”. What is
wrong with this question.
How interested are you in PostScript Level 2 printers?
A. The question cannot be answered.
B. The question is factually incorrect.
C. The question assumes a level of knowledge that may not be present.
D. The question is not a relevant question.
9.) In 2013, Mississippi had 493,650 students enrolled in a total of 1,063 schools in 162 school districts. The
No Child Left Behind program was implemented in 500 schools across Mississippi as an experimental program
to improve the standard test scores of students and the preparedness of teachers. As the State School
Superintendent responsible for reporting on the effectiveness of the program, what was your unit of analysis?
A. Standard test scores
B. Schools
C. School districts
D. Students

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