{"id":26596,"date":"2026-11-01T03:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-should-researchers-avoid-simply-adding-chained-dollar-gdp-figures-across-industries\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:51:31","slug":"why-should-researchers-avoid-simply-adding-chained-dollar-gdp-figures-across-industries","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-should-researchers-avoid-simply-adding-chained-dollar-gdp-figures-across-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should researchers avoid simply adding chained-dollar GDP figures across industries?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why should researchers avoid simply adding chained-dollar GDP figures across industries?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>Chained-dollar measures are generally nonadditive<\/li>\n<li>They always equal nominal dollars<\/li>\n<li>They contain only employment counts<\/li>\n<li>They omit every price adjustment<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","subject":[3258],"topic":[4001,4068],"education_level":[1897],"class_list":["post-26596","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","subject-us-economy","topic-economic-research-methods","topic-hawaii-facts","education_level-graduate"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Chained-dollar GDP<\/strong> values are not generally additive across industries in the same way as current-dollar GDP values.<\/p><p>Correlation alone cannot show causation; consider other variables and possible alternative explanations.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"Chained-dollar measures are generally nonadditive"},{"right":"no","answer":"They always equal nominal dollars"},{"right":"no","answer":"They contain only employment counts"},{"right":"no","answer":"They omit every price adjustment"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3258,"title":"U.S. Economy","slug":"us-economy"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":4001,"title":"Economic Research Methods","slug":"economic-research-methods"},{"id":4068,"title":"Hawaii Facts","slug":"hawaii-facts"}],"education_level_terms":[{"id":1897,"title":"Graduate","slug":"graduate"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/26596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=26596"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=26596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}