Exam 5: Conceptualization, operationalization, and Measurement

Numerical values on a ratio scale can legitimately be added,multiplied,subtracted,and divided.

Precise measurement is more important than accurate measurement.

Professor Spence decided to define socioeconomic status as a combination of income and education.Spence then determined the questions to be asked and the categories of responses.Spence was assigning socioeconomic status

Chan created a composite measurement to determine how likely a child is to engage in delinquency from the age of 10 to 14.She tests the reliability for this instrument by performing a pilot study in which two groups each received five of the ten questions.She then compares the results,hoping they are similar.What method did Chan use?

The definition of a phenomena that represents the objective,unquestionable "truth" of it,which is rarely used by sociologists is an example of a

When you are worried about whether you are actually measuring what you think you are measuring,you are worried about __________.

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

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

Which method for establishing reliability does not depend on using the measure itself?

Letter grades given at the end of the term are an example of ________ measurements; calculated GPAs are a type of _________ measurement.

Luke developed a measure of religious affiliation that included these attributes: Protestant,Baptist,Catholic,Jewish,Other,None.Which quality of measures does this measure lack?

In assessing a measure of sexual attitudes Troiden and Jendrek examined the link between the measure of sexual attitudes and sexual experience.They reasoned that people expressing liberal sexual attitudes would have a wider range of sexual experiences than those expressing conservative attitudes.They were concerned with examining the ______ of the sexual attitude measurements.

A nominal measure is one that is already quantified and ready to measure

The main reason you need to know the level of measurement for your variables is so that

Theoretical creations that are based on observations but that cannot be observed directly or indirectly are known as

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

It is impossible to have several indicators of only one concept.

A measurement of religion in which the indicators include Christian,Muslim,Judaism,and Other would be at what level?

Hudson et al.(1983,Journal of Sex Research)developed a series of questions to examine sexual attitudes (SAS).The SAS scores of religious fundamentalists,a group believed to be conservative regarding sexual expression,were compared with the scores of social work graduate students,a group believed to be liberal regarding sexual expression.The researchers were examining the instrument's

It is ethical to frame questions in favor of your position as long as you openly admit to the bias.