A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?"
Figure 5.1

-According to Figure 5.1, which group was most likely to respond that democracy is working "very poorly" in American today?
A) lower-class respondents
B) working-class respondents
C) middle-class respondents
D) upper-class respondents.

Question

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.1, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents' sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question "On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?"
Figure 5.1
 
-According to Figure 5.1, which group was most likely to respond that democracy is working "very poorly" in American today?
A) lower-class respondents 
B) working-class respondents 
C) middle-class respondents 
D) upper-class respondents.

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The Answer is A

A Researcher Is Interested to Know Whether People of Different