Exam 10: Scaling and Index Construction

Which of the following refers to levels on which variables may be measured?

The __________ are those crimes that are considered serious and that the police feel are fairly accurately reported and uniformly measured.

Which of the following refers to an attitude scale that relies on ratings by judges of scale items?

Which of the following contain all the elements of nominal and ordinal data and also assume equal distance between objects on a scale?

The Scientific Methods Scale usually consists of a seven- or nine-point bipolar rating scale in which individuals are asked to indicate their perception of a tag or description that is provided.

Which of the following attitude scaling procedures consists of usually a seven- or nine-point bipolar rating scale where respondents are asked to indicate their perception of the tag or description provided?

Which of the following refers to attempts to increase the complexity of the level of measurement of variables from nominal to at least ordinal and hopefully interval/ratio?

There are two basic types of crime seriousness severity)scales: simple rating scales and magnitude scales.

Thurstone scales consist of a simple summation of usually a five-point bipolar response ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree.

Which of the following tries to account for both the quality seriousness)and the quantity of an act?

Scaling refers to attempts to decrease the complexity of the level of measurement of variables from ordinal to at least nominal.

The semantic differential is a five-point scale that evaluates the methodological rigor and type of research design of studies.

__________ represent the simplest level of measurement.

Q sort methodology is a newer variation of the Thurstone process;the respondents rather than the judges place a series of statements into previously predetermined categories.

Internal level variables contain all the properties of nominal variables,but they also enable the placement of objects into ranks,that is,highest to lowest.

__________ are developed by the researcher and are based primarily on face validity the scale appears to be measuring what one intends to measure)and professional judgment.

Simple rating scales measure public rankings of the degrees of relative seriousness of various crimes.

Which of the following attempts to forecast crime commission or success or failure on probation/parole?

Which of the following contain all the properties of nominal variables,but they also enable the placement of objects into ranks,that is,highest to lowest?

The purpose of measurement is to make connections between concepts and numbers.