Suppose that you show a small boy two bars of fresh fudge that are equal on all dimensions (exactly the same size, shape, and weight). you ask him if the two bars are the same, and he says "yes." you then cut one of the bars into 10 chunks as he watches. you are surprised when he now asks if he can have the cut up fudge because it has more candy than the intact bar. this episode illustrates that the youngster:

Before tuberculosis was understood to be a communicable disease, and before the discovery of antibiotics to treat it, a major outbreak could kill or cripple a significant portion of a nation’s labor force. how would such an event affect the economy? illustrate the effect by dragging to shift either the aggregate demand curve or the long-run aggregate supply curve.

Many members of the civilized tribes farmed

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.