quiz 5

Question 1

The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013

Answer 1

Bill that failed to pass which would have expanded background checks to include sales made at gun shows and on the internet.

Question 2

Scientifically Valid Surveys

Answer 2

Policy makers and mass media communicators often use such measures of public opinion as indicators of what the people desire

Question 3

Delegate Model of Representation

Answer 3

the government not only derives its authority from the people but should also be responsive to their expressed desires

Question 3

Public Opinion

Answer 3

remains a fundamentally amorphous concept. It is typically defined as the collection of attitudes and preferences of the mass public

Question 3

Trustees

Answer 3

while in government they represent their constituents by using their own judgment

Question 3

Predipositiion

Answer 3

a deeper value or belief about politics that tends to be stable over time such as an ideology or partisainship

Question 4

Opinion

Answer 4

an evaluation of a subject such as a politician or a policy

Question 4

Preferences

Answer 4

refer to how people rank outcomes or expierences

Question 4

What are the most common methods of measuring and analyzing public opinion?

Answer 4

quantitative analyses of results from surveys

Question 5

How do we tend to measure public opinion?

Answer 5

in terms of what opinion polls or surveys report in response to questions asked of random samples of people

Question 6

Among other aspects of survey design what matters a lot in determining results?

Answer 6

question wording

Question 7

The public can be fickle, public opinion fluctuates even over relatively short periods.
T or F

Answer 7

True

Question 9

What find low levels of factual knowledge among people about the basic workings of the government?

Answer 9

contemporary surveys

Question 10

Because of what do we now know more than ever before about what people think and feel, as well as about the collective attitudes of the general public?

Answer 10

sophisticated methods of survey research and creative experimental techniques

Question 11

Before the advent of scientific opinion polling what did politicians and journalists look at as indicators of public opinion?

Answer 11

the size of crowds at rallies, the number of people buying and reading pamphlets, and the incidences of mob action.

Question 12

Straw Polls

Answer 12

were used as early as the nineteenth century, can get it right sometimes, but they are not scientifically valid in the sense that they are not consciously designed to represent the views of the electorate accurately.

Question 13

Population

Answer 13

the group you want to learn about.

Question 14

Among other aspects of survey design what matters a lot in determining results?

Answer 14

question wording

Question 15

Random Selection

Answer 15

meaning that in principle each person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen to be part of the sample

Question 16

Margin of Error

Answer 16

the range of outcomes in the population that we can expect to see given the date generated by the sample

Question 17

Sample

Answer 17

a subset of the population chosen to provide information for analysis

Question 18

Why will any attempt to measure public opinion be inexact?

Answer 18

measurements based on samples are unavoidably biased to a greater or lesser degree

Question 19

Biased Sample

Answer 19

one potential problem with polls, is a sample that because it does not accurately represent the overall population, is likely to lead to erroneous conclusions about the population

Question 19

What do many opinion polls reported in the media, and especially those used in marketing campaigns rely on?

Answer 19

heavily biased sampling strategies

Question 20

Biased Sample

Answer 20

one potential problem with polls, is a sample that because it does not accurately represent the overall population, is likely to lead to erroneous conclusions about the population

Question 21

Can the way questions are worded introduce other kinds of biased responses in opinion polling?

Answer 21

yes

Question 22

Should people be suspicious of polls in which respondents are allowed to self select by?

Answer 22

yes