A Researcher Is Interested to Know Whether People of Different

A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, 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?" The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command "DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10) ."
Figure 5.2

-Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between CLASS and DEMTODAY, as represented in Figure 5.2?

A) In general, there is a negative relationship between CLASS and DEMTODAY.
B) In general, as respondents' class increases, they are more likely to believe that democracy in America is working very well.
C) Regardless of respondents' class, most respondents believe that democracy in America is not working at all.
D) In general, as respondents' class increases, the likelihood of their believing that democracy in America is not working well at all also increases.