Exam 5: Concepts Operationalization and Measurement

Validity that is related to the logical relationships between variables is known as

Discuss the threat to validity. Cover the following threats: face, content, criterion-related, and construct.

A questionnaire contained the item "social class" with responses of lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, upper class. The researcher asks respondents to check the one that describes them. The researcher is using this question to measure

Content validity refers to

Reliability does not ensure  __________ any more than precision ensures it.

Most of the social scientific variables that meet the minimum requirements for interval measures also meet the requirements for

Measurement is difficult and __________, therefore researchers try to describe the measurement process explicitly.

The primary difference between the interval and the ratio level of variables is that

It is always a good idea to make more than one measurement of any subtle or complex social concept, which is known as the

The production report generated at the city police department contains the number of arrests made by each officer on a monthly basis. What level of measurement would number of arrests be?

In 2001, the UCR reported __________ larcenies; the NCVS estimated __________ larcenies.

The key standards for measurement quality are

Which of the following sequences illustrates the progression of measurement steps?

Age of an offender is an example of which level of measurement?

What two qualities should every variable possess?

__________  validity refers to particular empirical measures that may or may not accurately reflect the common agreements on concepts.

Which of the following is representative of the dimension "victim harm"?

Ordinal measures are variables whose attributes may be logically rank-ordered.

Composite measures are frequently used in criminal justice research for all of the following reasons except.

If a researcher is concerned with combining variables to result in a different composite measure, the researcher is using what technique?