CLEP US Government

Category - Public Opinion

An implication of the normal distribution of public opinion along a liberal-conservative continuum is that the American people overall:
  1. Are consistently liberal or left-wing
  2. Are consistently conservative or right-wing
  3. Are consistently moderate or in the middle
  4. Are evenly spread throughout the ideological spectrum
  5. Do not show any pattern whatsoever
Explanation
Answer: C -An implication of the normal distribution of public opinion along a liberal-conservative continuum is that the American people overall are consistently moderate. A “normal distribution” indicates that the most common responses are in the middle with fewer responses to the left or to the right. On a graph it looks like a hump. With ideology, this indicates that more people are in the center, or moderates, than on either the right or left, conservative or liberal.
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