Author Question: Which of the following is a similarity between the method of agreement and the method of difference ... (Read 147 times)

TVarnum · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Which of the following is a similarity between the method of agreement and the method of difference used in comparative politics?

A. Both of them work toward defining the causalities of the outcome and not the correlations between the variables involved.
B. Both of them are concerned with outcomes and not the causes for the outcomes.
C. Both of them are concerned with causes that explain a specific outcome and not attributes that do not cause specific outcomes.
D. Both of them involve understanding causalities through attributes either present or absent.
E. Both of them involve understanding political outcomes solely through hypothetical situations.

Question 2

In the ________ approach, cases with the same attributes but varying outcomes are compared and contrasted to determine causality.

A. method of agreement
B. method of quantiles
C. method of difference
D. method of averages
E. method of limits