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DQuestion 31 1 pts A researcher hypothesizes that individuals differ in support

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Question

DQuestion 31 1 pts A researcher hypothesizes that individuals differ in support for a balanced budget amendment based upon their partisan affiliation. He controls for education level and finds that highly educated Democrats are 27 points less likely to support a balanced budget amendment than highly educated Republicans but Democrats with lower education are 2 points more likely to support a balanced budget than Republicans with lower education. What's going on here? O an additive relationship between education and partisanship O an interaction between education and partisanship 9 a spurious rleationship between education and partisanship

Explanation / Answer

In statistics, an interaction may arise when considering the relationship among three or more variables, and describes a situation in which the simultaneous influence of two variables on a third is additive

So, the given relationship between education and partisanship is an additive relationship.