What role do interest groups play in educating policymakers about political issues? a. Interest groups are never considered a valid source of information because they are so biased.
b. They are an important source of political information.
c. Politicians are legally barred from receiving policy or political information directly from interest groups.
d. They tend to confuse policymakers and often alienate them.
e. They serve to overwhelm policymakers with too much information.

What did passage of the immigration act of 1965 accomplish? the law lowered the number of asians allowed to immigrate to the us. the law allowed no more immigration from european nations. the law supported victims of political persecution. the law made an effort to establish a quota system.

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.

After having your fifteenth candy bar we can assess that you would have? a. negative utility b. high utility c. low utility d. a sixteenth candy bar