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General Chapter Questions
100
There were about 150,000 abused children in this year.
What is 1963?
100
A valuable tool for comparing places.
What is the UCR?
100
Comparison of different social classes, ethnic backgrounds, or religious affiliations.
What are comparisons among groups?
100
Reason social problems can encourage bad statistics.
What is complexity?
100
Times, Places, Groups, and Social Problems
What are the four types of comparisons?
200
Does not measure changes in the incidence of the problem so much as the attitudes toward the problem.
What are Statistics?
200
Reasons statistics can be skewed.
What are definitions?
200
Most obvious problem with comparing groups.
What are sizes?
200
Number of Americans that die annually in automobile accidents.
What is 40,000?
200
Occurs when changes in the larger society make an established measure less accurate or less meaningful
What are unchanging measures?
300
Form of comparison across time contrasts the present with the future.
What are projections?
300
Language, culture, and social structure make comparing statistics difficult.
What is the problem with geographical comparisons?
300
Rate of whites victimized in 1997
What is 37.1?
300
Time frame when Congress raised speed limits.
What are the 1990's?
300
The actual number of HIV infections reported by 1991.
What is about 200,000?
400
The reason why the NCVS was redesigned.
What is to reduce false negatives?
400
Form of definition that can justify budget increases by showing higher gang related homicide cases.
What is broad?
400
Number of lower-class black youths that are arrested 15 times.
What is 50?
400
Number of vehicle thefts reported in 1995 by the FBI.
What is 1,472,700
400
Presents a lower number of gang related homicide as evidence that the department is doing an effective job keeping gangs under control.
What is a narrow definition?
500
These make powerful media stories.
What are frightening predictions?
500
Percentage of Japanese that pass the exam that licenses than as bengoshi.
What is 2%?
500
Apparent relationships between two variables that are actually caused by a third variable.
What is spurious?
500
percent of people aged 15 - 19 that died in an accident in 1991.
What is 45%?
500
what comparisons depend on.
What is comparability?