Author Question: Jeremy is engaged in some archival research and, after analyzing his results, he concludes that over ... (Read 55 times)

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Jeremy is engaged in some archival research and, after analyzing his results, he concludes that over the last 20 years,

television programs have shown progressively higher levels of violence every year, with the exception of the 1991-1992 period, which displayed a slight decrease. This kind of conclusion appears to be __________ and is quite __________ in archival research.

a. inferential; typical
b. inferential; unusual
c. descriptive; typical
d. descriptive; unusual

Question 2

Danny is conducting an archival study where he is attempting to select medical records from a hospital's database such that the selected files mirror the larger collection's characteristics and traits. It appears that Danny is concerned about

a. his sample's representativeness.
b. the internal validity of the study.
c. establishing a proper control group.
d. implementing a double-blind procedure.