Jane Jenzen is interested in how members of three different ethnic groups are portrayed in Time,Newsweek,and Maclean's magazines.She is only interested in considering feature articles containing news and stories about ethnic groups.After examining the three magazines,she finds that the average issue of each magazine contains 45 articles and that the magazines are published 52 weeks per year,yielding 23 400 articles.She decides to limit the number of articles to 156 articles per magazine-468 articles in total,or 2 percent.What is Jenzen's unit of analysis?
A) All articles in Time, Newsweek, and Maclean's for the years 2000 to 2010
B) Each individual article
C) All 23 400 articles
D) 468 articles
E) 2 percent of 23 400 articles

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Jenzen's unit of analysis is each individual article, as she is interested in analyzing how members of three different ethnic groups are portrayed in feature articles in the three magazines. She limits the number of articles to 156 per magazine, meaning she only wants to analyze a subset of the total articles. Therefore, the unit of analysis is the individual article.

Jane Jenzen Is Interested in How Members of Three Different