Which sentence describes a legislative referendum?
a. voters approve or reject a proposal without the legislature.
b. a legislature passes a bill that must be approved by voters.
c. voters approve a measure that is nonbinding and can be ignored.
d. voters sign a petition to gather support for an issue.

An education expert is researching teaching methods and wishes to interview teachers from a particular school district. she randomly selects ten schools from the district and interviews all of the teachers at the selected schools. which type of sample did she use in this study? a)systematic sample b)probability sample c)stratified sample d)cluster sample

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.

Is it true the ancient egyptians created a calendar that had 10 days in a week