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Methods Quiz 4

True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
 

1. 

If a measure is reliable, it must also be valid.
 

2. 

Validity refers to the link between the operational and conceptual definitions.
 

3. 

Predictive validity is another term for criterion-related validity.
 

4. 

If three people (Smith, Jones, and Edwards) are rank- ordered with respect to the possession of an attribute on an ordinal variable, then we can conclude that the distance between Smith and Jones on that variable is equal to the distance between Jones and Edwards.
 

5. 

A nominal measure can have only two categories.
 

6. 

Numbers assigned to ranks on an ordinal scale can legitimately be added, multiplied, subtracted, and divided.
 

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

7. 

Which of the following sequences illustrates the progression of measurement steps?
a.
conceptualization, nominal definition, operational definition, and measurements in the real world
b.
nominal definition, conceptualization, operational definition, and measurements in the real world
c.
operational definition, conceptualization, nominal definition, and measurements in the real world
d.
nominal definition, operationalization, conceptualization, and real-world measurements
e.
conceptualization, operationalization, nominal definition, and real-world measurements
 

8. 

Reliability involves
a.
whether a particular technique applied repeatedly to the same object would yield the same results each time
b.
ensuring accuracy
c.
ensuring that your measure measures what you think it should measure
d.
ensuring precision
e.
all of the above
 

9. 

Professor Spence decided to define socioeconomic status as a combination of income and education. Spence then determined the questions to be asked in a survey and the categories of responses. Spence was assigning socioeconomic status
a.
a nominal definition only
b.
an operational and a real definition
c.
a real definition only
d.
a nominal and a real definition
e.
a nominal and an operational definition
 

10. 

Most social scientists would not accept the conceptualization of IQ as foot size because such a measurement would lack
a.
precision
b.
reliability
c.
accuracy
d.
validity
e.
all of the above
 

11. 

A questionnaire contained the item "educational level completed" with responses of grade school, junior high school, high school, college, graduate degree, and other. A researcher asked subjects to check the appropriate response. The researcher is using this question to measure
a.
direct observables
b.
indirect observables
c.
constructs
d.
a nominal variable
e.
validity
 

12. 

When the variable religious affiliation is classified as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish, this variable has the important quality of being
a.
mutually exclusive
b.
exhaustive
c.
interchangeable
d.
nominal scale
e.
ordinal scale
 

13. 

A researcher must decide in the process of operationalization
a.
how and what to measure
b.
the range of variation to consider
c.
the use of single or multiple indicators
d.
what level of measurement to use
e.
all of the above
 

14. 

Professor Tyler wrote a proposal to study the impact of authoritarianism on child rearing practices. She began her research by reviewing the meaning of authoritarianism in the sociological and psychological literature. Based on this review, she formulated her own definition of authoritarianism. This process illustrates
a.
Operationalization
b.
The interchangeability of indicators
c.
Conceptualization
d.
Validity assessment
e.
Reliability assessment
 

15. 

Classifying someone as employed or not employed treats employment as
a.
a ratio variable
b.
an interval variable
c.
an ordinal variable
d.
a nominal variable
e.
a dependent variable
 



 
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