ICPSR Trivia
Social Sciences
Data & Statistics
Acronyms
Winter Holidays
100

The first ICPSR Summer Program was held in this year

What is 1963?

100

The study of human social relationships and institutions

What is sociology?

100

The selection of a subset of individuals from within a population to estimate characteristics of the whole population

What is sampling?

100

BJS

What is the Bureau of Justice Statistics?
100

This Germanic pagan holiday/festival has contributed to Christmas via traditions such as the eponymously named log

What is Yule?

200

This person was ICPSR's longest-serving director

Who is Jerry Clubb?

200

The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

What is economics?

200

The process of extracting information from and discovering patterns in large datasets

What is data mining?

200
PuMUS

What is Project Management and User Support?

200

This holiday was celebrated by ancient Romans to honor the god of the harvest

What is Saturnalia?

300

Excluding UM, this was the number of original consortium members

What is 22?

300

The study of human behaviors, cultures, and societies of the past and present

What is anthropology?

300

A set of steps followed in order to solve a mathematical problem or to complete a computer process

What is an algorithm?

300

SDA

What is Survey Documentation and Analysis?

300

This holiday for "the rest of us" includes such traditions as an airing of grievances and erecting a pole made out of cans

What is Festivus?

400

Created in 2018, this is the most recently established Special Topic Archive

What is the U.S. Census Data Repository?

400

The statistical study of populations

What is demography?

400

The process of systematically calculating, acquiring, and recording information about the members of a given population

What is a census?

400

NACDA

What is the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging?

400

Each day of this celebration of African-American culture is dedicated to one of seven principles

What is Kwanzaa?

500

Prior to being acquired by UM and eventually becoming ICPSR's home, the Perry Building was originally this

What is an elementary school?

500

The interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes

What is cognitive science?

500

The mistaken rejection of an actually true null hypothesis

What is a Type I Error?

500

XML

What is eXtensible Markup Language?

500

This holiday commemorates a rebellion and is celebrated in part by eating fried foods.

What is Chanukah?

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