PSCI 2305 Unit 1 Test Questions and Answers
Approximately what percentage of young voters identify with the same political party as their parents? - Answer-Over 50 percent
Which of the following groups is more likely to identify with conservative positions? - Answer-Senior citizens
Which of...
Approximately what percentage of young voters identify with the same political party as
their parents? - Answer-Over 50 percent
Which of the following groups is more likely to identify with conservative positions? -
Answer-Senior citizens
Which of the following tend to be the most liberal in regard to social issues such as
abortion and same-sex marriage? - Answer-The religiously unaffiliated
According to the text, what is the key to proper public opinion studies? - Answer-
Scientific measurement
What is the main problem associated with the polling methods of the Literary Digest? -
Answer-Its respondents were not randomly selected
Who was the first president to use a private polling firm? - Answer-Franklin Roosevelt
Which of the following resulted from the 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and
Jimmy Carter? - Answer-Most outlets agreed to wait to call races until all polls on the
West Coast had closed
At the beginning of the above video clip, what announcement did NBC make about the
projected winner of Florida? - Answer-The Florida race was declared too close to call
At 11 pm, what announcement did NBC make regarding the election? - Answer-George
W. Bush was declared the winner of Florida and the next US president
According to the article, what was the exit poll data showing at 7:45 pm on election
night, and how did that compare to the model prediction that included sample precinct
votes? - Answer-Exit poll results showed a 6.6 percent lead for Gore, while the model
predicted a 5.4 percent lead for Gore
Why was Warren Mitofsky willing to project a winner for the Florida election before 8
p.m.? - Answer-Because his data showed that the actual votes for Gore were even
better than exit polling numbers, he believed exit polls had been overstating Bush's
numbers.
, According to the AJR article, what are the three sources of data that VNS uses for its
projections? - Answer-Exit poll results, raw votes from sample precincts, and the actual
vote total
In the end, what did Murray Edelman, the editorial director of VNS, believe the networks
did not take into account? - Answer-Absentee ballots
According to the article from The Atlantic, what happened with the early exit poll results
in Wisconsin? - Answer-Early exit poll results were leaked which led people to believe
that the race was much closer than it turned out to be.
Why do exit polls get so much attention on election night, according to the article? -
Answer-Before the actual votes are counted, exit polls fill an information vacuum at the
moment when people most want to know election results.
According to Mark Blumenthal, how should exit polls be used? - Answer-Exit polls
should be used to understand voter behavior, not to predict election outcomes.
Which of the following problems existed in BOTH the 2000 presidential election and the
2012 Wisconsin recall election? - Answer-Exit polling data was used to incorrectly
predict the election outcome.
What is the most effective way to ensure that a study reflects the opinions of the general
population? - Answer-Use random sampling
A margin of error +/- 5 in an exit poll would indicate which of the following? - Answer-
The winner's actual vote percentage could be 5 percentage points higher or lower
predicted by the poll
Table 2 demonstrates that question wording can have what sort of impact on poll
results? - Answer-A significant impact
Based on the list above, which of the following questions would be the LEAST helpful to
ask when evaluating the trustworthiness of polling information? - Answer-Who asked
the questions?
Most Americans hold which of the following views on the use of public opinion polls? -
Answer-They think government leaders should pay attention to public opinion
Who believed that the best form of government is the one that is only INDIRECTLY
influenced by public opinion? - Answer-James Madison
Despite growing public support for nuclear power, what event led the federal
government to approve fewer new reactors in the United States in the mid-2000s? -
Answer-The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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